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Tehran, Iran – 28 June 2024
1. Various of hardline Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili arriving at polling station while surrounded by supporters
2. Wide of supporters
3. Close pan left from supporters to Jalili inside polling station
4. Close of Jalili
5. Close of Jalili talking to supporter
6. Mid of Jalili turning to wave to supporters
7. Mid of media
8. Mid of Jalili casting ballot and waving to supporters
9. Wide pan left from Jalili leaving to media
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Rey, Iran – 28 June 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist candidate:
"God willing, we will try to have friendly relations with all countries except Israel."
11. Mid of Pezeshkian surrounded by supporters
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist candidate:
"Hijab is something that we need to address according to the law, but no inhuman or invasive behavior should be made against our girls, daughters and mothers."
13. Mid of Pezeshkian waving and getting in car
STORYLINE:
Presidential candidates Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili voted on Friday in Iran’s snap election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi.
Voters face a choice between hard-line candidates and the little-known Pezeshkian who belongs to Iran’s reformist movement that seeks to change its Shiite theocracy from within. As has been the case since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, women and those calling for radical change have been barred from the ballot while the vote itself will have no oversight from internationally recognized monitors.
The race’s sole reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West after he cast a ballot in an effort to boost his campaign.
Pezeshkian, who voted at a hospital near the capital, Tehran, appeared to have that in mind as he responded to a journalist’s question about how Iran would interact with the West if he was president.
“God willing, we will try to have friendly relations with all countries except Israel," the 69-year-old candidate said. Israel, long Iran’s regional archenemy, faces intense criticism across the Mideast over its grinding war in the Gaza Strip.
He also responded to a question about a renewed crackdown on women over the mandatory headscarf, or hijab, less than two years after the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, which sparked nationwide demonstrations and violent security force response.
“No inhuman or invasive behavior should be made against our girls, daughters and mothers,” he said.
A higher turnout could boost Pezeshkian’s chances, and the candidate may have been counting on social media to spread his remarks, as all television broadcasters in the country are state-controlled and run by hard-liners. But it remains unclear if he can gain the momentum needed to draw voters to the ballot. There have been calls for a boycott, including from imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
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