{"id":20339,"date":"2024-06-29T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/29\/irans-presidential-election-heads-to-runoff-after-inconclusive-first-round\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T15:46:14","slug":"irans-presidential-election-heads-to-runoff-after-inconclusive-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/29\/irans-presidential-election-heads-to-runoff-after-inconclusive-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s presidential election heads to runoff after inconclusive first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Iran\u2019s presidential election is expected to head to a second round after none of the candidates managed to secure more than 50% in Friday\u2019s vote, according to the spokesperson of the election committee, Mohsen Eslami.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            A runoff vote is expected to take place on July 5 between the candidates with the most votes \u2013\u00a0Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist lawmaker and former health minister ahead of Saeed Jalili, a hardline security adviser and former nuclear negotiator.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            The results will be reviewed by the influential Guardian Council before the top two candidates start campaigning again.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Pezeshkian received almost 10.5 million votes while the runner up Jalili received almost 9.5 million votes, according to numbers published by state news agency IRNA.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Twenty-four million people cast their ballots out of 60 million eligible voters, with a turnout of 40%, Eslami said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            <em>This is a breaking news story. Updates to follow\u2026<\/em>    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s presidential election is expected to head to a second round after none of the candidates managed to secure more than 50% in Friday\u2019s vote, according to the spokesperson of the election committee, Mohsen Eslami. A runoff vote is expected to take place on July 5 between the candidates with the most votes \u2013\u00a0Masoud Pezeshkian, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}