Within the lead-up to the election, Iran’s predominant reformist coalition supported Pezeshkian, with endorsements by former presidents Mohammad Khatami and Hassan Rouhani, a average.
“The reformists introduced out the large weapons and tried their finest to mobilise their base,” Vaez stated on social media platform X, however “it was merely inadequate”.
Likewise, the conservatives did not garner ample votes “regardless of the great sources they deployed,” he added.
Vaez identified that the mixed votes of Jalili and conservative parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who got here in third, totalled 12.8 million.
That determine was nicely beneath Raisi’s practically 18 million votes within the 2021 election.
Of the 61 million eligible voters, solely about 40 per cent forged ballots, marking a record-low turnout within the Islamic Republic the place some folks have misplaced religion within the course of.
Multiple million ballots had been spoiled.
For Vaez, the decline in turnout, from round 49 per cent in 2021, was “an actual embarrassment for the management” in Iran, the place final political energy lies with the supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.