Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential election

Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by his supporters as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s run-off presidential election.

He beat hard-liner Saeed Jalili after promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.