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The official results of Iran’s presidential election runoff have been announced, yet doubts have emerged regarding the veracity of the figures.

Iranian lawyer and rights activist Mohsen Borhani has been imprisoned for speaking out against the government.

Iran’s defeated presidential candidate Saeed Jalili visited president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian’s office on Saturday night, less than one day after the election results were announced, where the two held a meeting.

The Iranian elections will not have a major impact on the Biden administration's approach to Iran, a US State Department spokesperson told Iran International on Saturday, a day after moderate Masoud Pezeshkian won the country's run-off presidential vote.

The European Union offered an olive branch to Iran's president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian amid warnings by Iranian opposition figures and dissidents against any "appeasement" with the Islamic Republic's new government.

Iran's President-Elect Massoud Pezeshkian began his challenging journey to the presidency just one day after his comfortable victory in the July 5 runoff election.

As Masoud Pezeshkian was named Iran's next president, his presidential rivals sent messages of congratulations as the Supreme Leader called for government unity.

In Episode 5 of 'Eye for Iran', we discuss the Arab League’s decision to remove Hezbollah from its terror list and also the record-low voter turnout in the first round of Iran's presidential election.

Iran's top Sunni cleric Mowlavi Abdolhamid has warned president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian that Iranians are "exhausted" and are losing patience with the country's ongoing issues.

Iran’s exiled prince has warned Western powers against appeasing the Islamic Republic's new president, saying the Iranian people would view it as a betrayal of their struggle for freedom.

Iran and Russia have signed their first bilateral monetary agreement that they say is to strengthen financial and economic ties and counter the impacts of US sanctions on their economies.

In the aftermath of Iran’s July 5 presidential runoff and 'reformist' candidate Masoud Pezeshkian's ascent to the presidency, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has voiced strong criticism of 'reformists' in general and the newly elected president.

With the announcement of Masoud Pezeshkian as the winner of the July 5th Iranian presidential runoff vote, leaders from around the world have extended their congratulations.

Former chief of Iran’s Central Bank, Abdolnaser Hemmati, told local media that one of the first tasks for the new president should be reaching an agreement with the West to lift sanctions.

Zeinab Jalalian, one of the longest-serving female political prisoners in Iran, is in her 17th year of life imprisonment in the central city of Yazd, enduring severe health issues without proper medical care.

Masoud Pezeshkian, the relatively moderate of the two finalists was declared the ninth president of Iran after securing 53.6 percent of the votes in the July 5 runoff against ultra hardliner Saeed Jalili with 44.3 percent.

The Biden administration’s decision to allow Iran to hold votes on US soil sparked controversy on Friday, as Iranian-American activists gathered outside some polling stations to protest against those entering to cast their votes in Iran’s presidential election.

A minibus sent to collect votes from Sunni worshippers at a grand mosque in Saravan, in Iran's eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province, was set on fire, according to rights groups.

Political prisoners in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj abstained from voting for the runoff presidential elections, just as they did last week.

According to Iran's interior ministry, over 30 million Iranians have voted in the runoff presidential election, considerably higher that the nearly 40% participation in the first round on June 28.

As eyewitness reports from Iran indicated many empty polling stations across the country, officials began claiming that the turnout was higher than in the first round of the election last Friday.