This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Sunday the 30th of June, these are our main stories.

The Iranian presidential election will go to a runoff on

Friday with the sole moderate candidate taking on an ultra-conservative.

Serbia's prime minister has denounced a crossbow attack on a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade.

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remind the world of the crimes inflicted on them

by the Islamic State Group.

Despite a lack of enthusiasm from voters, the presidential election in Iran seems to have produced an interesting outcome. A runoff between a moderate and a hardliner.

Turnout was at a historic low of about 40%, down from 49% in 2021 when Ibrahim Reese

he was elected.

His death in a helicopter crash last month

led to Friday's presidential vote, the first since widespread protests over the

death of Marsa Amini. The moderate candidate Masoud Persheschkin got most votes about 42 percent, not enough

to win outright though. He will face the far-right former nuclear negotiator,eed Jalili in the runoff this

coming Friday.

Seevash Ardalan from the BBC's Persian service has been monitoring the election so as hardliners like to keep control can Masood

possession and win it all now depends on how the voters will behave in the second

round of election you have a polarized society where the majority have

decided not to vote, delivering a very strong message to the clerical

establishment, we don't want you. And then you have the regime loyalists who have also become radicalized in their own way who have decided to choose the far right candidate Saeed Jalili against Mohammed Bogar Ghali Boff was considered the center right candidate, the previous mayor of Iran, who was in favor of relations

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