Iran will hold a runoff presidential election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi with reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian,  an official said on Saturday after an initial vote showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.

As per the election spokesman, Mohsen Eslami’s announcement in the Iranian state’s television conference, more than 60 per cent  of voters cast no ballot in the race that saw reformist Masoud Pezeshkian (secured 10.4 million votes) perform better than Saeed Jalili (9.4 million), who competed alongside two other hard-liners.