DUBAI (Reuters) – The country’s run-off presidential election has been won by the low-key moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has promised to open Iran to the outside world and bring about the freedoms that its people have long desired for, the interior ministry announced on Saturday.

“By gaining majority of the votes cast on Friday, Pezeshkian has become Iran’s next president,” read the statement.

About half of the candidates participated in the close contest between hardline former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, who is a strong proponent of strengthening ties with China and Russia, and Pezeshkian, the only moderate in the original field of four.

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