With over 14 million ballots counted in Iran’s presidential election until Saturday morning, Masoud Pezeshkian has slightly increased his lead on runner-up Saeed Jalili by winning 42.32 percent of the votes, the Elections Headquarters announced.
Meanwhile, The Iranian Ministry of Interior announced a short while ago that Masoud Pezeshkian obtained 42.3% of the votes compared to 39.5% for Saeed Jalili after counting approximately 14 million votes.
The Iranian Ministry of Interior provided new results for the counted votes as follows:
The total number of valid and invalid votes is 14,070,462.
Masoud Pezeshkian: 5,955,781 votes.
Saeed Jalili: 5,560,321 votes.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: 1,891,385 votes.
Mostafa Mirsalim: 11,967 votes.
