Iran heads to polls for presidential run-off election

The second round of the Iranian presidential election is under way (AP)

Iranians began voting on Friday in a run-off election to replace the late president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.

Voters face a choice between the hardline former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and long-time parliament member who has allied himself with moderates and reformists within Iran’s Shiite theocracy.