Iran will hold a run-off presidential election on Friday, July 5, after an initial vote saw reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili each fall short of securing an outright win in an election with the lowest turnout ever held in the Islamic Republic.

Iranian state television reported the results that triggered a second round of voting, with the two candidates neck-and-neck in the race to replace the hard-line president, Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash…