{"id":15247,"date":"2024-07-06T07:42:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T07:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2024-07-06T07:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T07:42:35","slug":"reformist-masoud-pezeshkian-ninth-president-elected-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=15247","title":{"rendered":"Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, Ninth President Elected of Iran\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG-20240706-WA0006-1024x716.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG-20240706-WA0006-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG-20240706-WA0006-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG-20240706-WA0006-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG-20240706-WA0006.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Centrist Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran\u2019s presidential election run-off against hardline conservative Saeed Jalili.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran : Reformist Massoud Pezeshkian has been elected as Iran&#8217;s new president, beating his hardline conservative rival Saeed Jalili.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vote was declared in Dr Pezeshkian&#8217;s favour after he secured 53.3% of the more than 30 million votes counted. Mr Jalili polled at 44.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The run-off came after no candidate secured a majority in the first round of the election on 28 June, which saw a historically low voter turnout of 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Result of the Fourteenth Presidential Election of the Islamic Republic of Iran, July 6th, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Birth: 29 September 1954\u00a0(age\u00a069)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Education: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Profession: Cardiac\u00a0and\u00a0Heart Surgeon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Full Professor at the Medical University of Tabriz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minister of Health and Medical Education\u00a0between 2001 and 2005<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament \u00a0from 2016 to 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tabriz representative in the\u00a0Parliament of Iran (2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centrist Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran\u2019s presidential election run-off against hardline conservative Saeed Jalili. Tehran : Reformist Massoud Pezeshkian has been elected as Iran&#8217;s new president, beating his hardline conservative&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[187,509],"class_list":["post-15247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-main-stories","tag-embassy-of-iran-pakistan","tag-president-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15249,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions\/15249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}