Iran Elections: Thousands Gather To Elect Raisi's Successor

Voting in Iran began at 8 am local time on Friday and may extend in two-hour intervals until midnight

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61,452,321 eligible voters in Iran; latest poll suggests turnout at 48.6%, potentially a record low

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Let's have a look at the contestants for the elections

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Masoud Pezeshkian

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Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf

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Iran’s presidential election was not scheduled to be held before 2025. But Ebrahim Raisi's death last month led to snap elections

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Raisi and Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six others were killed on May 19 in a helicopter crash near the border with Azerbaijan

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