Former Iranian Health Minister Masoud Pezeshkian leads with 12 million votes counted, Mohsen Eslami, secretary and spokesperson of the Election Headquarters said, Paralel.Az reports.

Eslami reported that after counting ballots from 32,200 out of 58,000 polling stations, Masoud Pezeshkian received 5 million votes, the representative of Iran's spiritual leader in the Supreme National Security Council Said Jalili received 4.875 million votes.

Iran held an extraordinary presidential election today. Voting began at 08:00 local time, and it initially was slated to run for 10 hours.

Four candidates are vying for the presidency: Masoud Pezeshkian, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Saeed Jalili, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi.

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Iran's spiritual leader's representative on the country's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, leads after 10,366,000 votes (61 million voters in total) were counted in the extraordinary presidential elections, Mohsen Eslami, secretary and spokesperson of the Election Headquarters said, Paralel.Az reports.

According to him, after counting ballots at 28 thousand out of 58 thousand polling stations, Jalili received 4.266 million votes, and former head of the Ministry of Health Masoud Pezeshkiyan - 4.244 million votes. 1.385 million people voted for Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagheer Ghalibaf.

The fourth presidential candidate - the former head of the ministries of internal affairs and justice - conservative Mustafa Pourmohammadi received 80.5 thousand votes.