(5 Jul 2024)
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Qods Town, near Tehran - 5 July 2024
1. Various of reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian surrounded by supporters at polling station
STORYLINE:
Reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian was swarmed by supporters as he arrived to vote in Iran's run-off election at a polling station near Tehran on Friday.
Iranians began voting on Friday for a candidate to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East.
Voters face a choice between the hard-line former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime parliament member who has allied himself with moderates and reformists within Iran’s Shiite theocracy.
An initial round of voting June 28 saw no candidate get over 50% of the vote, forcing the runoff. It also saw the lowest turnout ever for an Iranian election, leaving turnout Friday a major question.
There have been calls for a boycott, including from imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, though potential voters in Iran appear to have made the decision not to participate last week on their own as there’s no widely accepted opposition movement operating within or outside of the country.
State television broadcast images of modest lines at select polling places around the country as polls opened Friday.
AP Video shot by Saeed Sarmadi
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