Iran's presidential election enters runoff: spokespe8k8rson

TEHRAN - Iran's 14th presidential election on Saturday entered a runoff vote, with former Health Minister Masoud Pezeshkian and former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili leading in the first round but no one gets minimum threshold of 50 percent of votes, Iran's Election Headquarters Spokesperson Mohsen Eslami said.

The spokesperson said turnout of the voting stands at 40 percent, adding that the runoff election will be held on next Friday.

According to Eslami, Pezeshkian got 10,415,991 of votes, accounting for over 42 percent of the total votes counted, while Jalili got 9,473,298, or over 38 percent.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf got 3,383,340, or 13.8 percent, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a former interior minister and justice minister, got 206,397, or 0.8 percent, Eslami said.