(17 May 2017) Supporters of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and his hard-line rival Ebrahim Raisi gathered on the streets of Tehran in the final hours of campaigns in the Iranian presidential election on Wednesday evening.
Rouhani, a moderate, is seeking re-election in a vote that will largely serve as a referendum on his outreach to the West, which culminated in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Under the accord, Iran agreed to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of some economic sanctions.
Despite the deal, Khamenei - Iran's top decision-maker - remains deeply suspicious of the United States and its intentions toward Iran.
Khamenei is believed to favour Rouhani's main challenger, the hard-line candidate Raisi, who has support from major clerical bodies, hard-liners in the establishment as well as allies of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Some 56.4 million people out of a population of 80 million are eligible to vote in Friday's poll.
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