 Painting have already been sold at $520 each. I'm Rob Martyr. Reformist candidate Massoud Pazeshkian has won Iran's runoff presidential election. Pazeshkian had been a frequent critic of the conservative government and won the vote by promising to improve connections with the West and lessen enforcement on the country's mandatory headscarf law. Meanwhile, conservative Saeed Jalil came in second with roughly 3 million less votes.