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Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative hardliner Saeed Jalili will go to a run-off vote in Iran's presidential election, the country's electoral authority said on Saturday.
Pezeshkian received around 42.5% of the vote and Jalili followed at 38.7%. There were two other candidates in the race.
As none achieved an absolute majority, the run-off will take place on July 5.
Some 61 million voters in Iran were eligible to elect a successor to hardliner Ebrahim Raisi on Friday, after he died in a helicopter crash in May.
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