(19 Jun 2024)
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Tehran – 19-20 June 2024
1. Reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian arriving at campaign meeting and being welcomed by supporters
2. Pezeshkian sitting with former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
3. Pezeshkian standing up and waving to supporters
4. Zarif raising Pezeshkian’s hand in support
5. Supporters applauding and waving flags
6. Various of supporters making victory signs
7. Pezeshkian and Zarif joining hands
8. Wide of Zarif speaking onstage
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Zarif, former Iranian Foreign Minister:
"We will foil all hardliners, both hardliners on this side (inside Iran) and the ones on the other side."
10. Wide of audience applauding
11. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Javad Zarif, former Iranian Foreign Minister:
"On Saturday, June 29, we will welcome president Pezeshkian."
12. Zarif raising Pezeshkian’s hand in support and making victory sign
13. Wide of campaign meeting
14. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist presidential candidate:
"We want justice and fairness. We detest discrimination, and we won’t submit to bullies. Is that a bad thing?"
15. Supporters chanting UPSOUND (Farsi): "Long live Pezeshkian, long live (former Iranian President Mohammad) Khatami!"
STORYLINE:
Moderate Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian held his biggest campaign meeting yet in the capital city of Tehran late Wednesday.
Pezeshkian, a surgeon and a member of parliament, is backed by the country’s reformists and moderates, including former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Zarif, who attended Wednesday’s rally, negotiated a historic nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, which fell apart after then U.S president Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.
Pezeshkian has said he supports negotiations with the west to remove sanctions imposed by the U.S and Western nations.
During the event, Zarif vowed hardliners inside and outside the country would be foiled if Pezeshkian wins the election, which will be held on June 28.
Iranian officials describe U.S republicans – mainly Donald Trump and Israeli foreign minister Benjamin Netanyahu – as hardliners and extremists.
Pezeshkian is competing against five hardline candidates for the presidency after former president Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month.
AP Video shot by Saeed Sarmadi
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