(26 Jun 2024)
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Tehran, Iran – 24 June 2024
1.Tehran skyline
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Tehran, Iran – 23 June 2024
2. Various of traffic on road
3. Various of pedestrians
4. Newspaper with picture of candidates during debate, headline reading (Farsi): "What did they say about the economy?"
5. Giant symbolic ballot box and election posters
6. Wide of supporters during Masoud Pezeshkian’s campaign meeting
7. Pezeshkian and his daughter
8. Various of supporters cheering
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist presidential candidate:
"I promise to stop the unfair behavior towards our daughters, sisters and mothers on the streets (by morality police) I will stop them from doing that."
10. Various of supporters waving flags
11. Various of pedestrians
12. Various of traffic on road and election posters
13. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, parliament speaker and presidential candidate arriving at a campaign meeting
14. Qalibaf talking to cleric
15. Audience clapping
16. Qalibaf clapping
17. Wide of meeting
18. Supporters holding pictures of Qalibaf
19. Wide of Qalibaf
20. Supporters cheering
21. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, parliament speaker and presidential candidate:
"We will surely reclaim our people’s rights. God willing, we will remove this heavy burden, this dark shadow of (economic) sanctions on our country."
22. Audience clapping
23. Qalibaf shaking hands with supporters
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Tehran, Iran – 24 June 2024
24. Women on bus
25. Pedestrians
26. People at bus stop
27. Women exiting bus
28. Supporters of hardline candidate Saeed Jalili during campaign rally
29. Jalili waving
30. Supporters
31. Jalili giving speech
32. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, hardline candidate:
"That guy (Donald Trump) hasn’t yet taken office. But they (referring to political rivals) are asking if (Trump) wins what are you going to do? They are scared, and they want others to be scared too. What’s our answer to them? The answer is the same that our revered martyr (military commander killed by US drone strike) Qassem Soleimani gave. He said ‘Oh Mr. Trump the gambler! We’re the ones who are going to fight you!’"
33. Supporters chanting, UPSOUND (Farsi) "Death to America" and "death to Britain"
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Tehran, Iran – 23 June 2024
34. Pedestrians
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Tehran, Iran – 24 June 2024
35. Pigeons
STORYLINE:
Two days ahead of Iran’s presidential elections, three key candidates are competing in a close race to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month.
Pezeshkian is the only candidate trying to appeal to the Western-minded youth,
Pezeshkian has been an outspoken critic of the morality police.
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