(28 Jun 2024)
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Rey, Iran – 28 June 2024
1. Wide of Abdulazim Shrine in Rey, near Tehran
2. Wide pan right of women waiting to vote at polling station
3. Mid of women waiting to vote at polling station
4. Close of woman voting
5. Various of woman writing ballot paper
6. Mid of family making victory sign
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Azam Fakhimi, 41, local resident:
"Unfortunately some people think that the president has been already selected. But we must vote, if I don’t vote someone else would vote and the candidate who is not the best might be elected, unfortunately. That would harm the Iranian nation."
8. Wide of polling station at mosque
9. Close of voter holding placard with picture of late president Ebrahim Raisi, placard reading (Farsi) "Men who kept their promise to God with honesty"
10. Pan right of voters waiting to vote at polling station
11. Mid of man voting
12. Various of voters waiting to vote at polling station
13. Close of voter showing his ID with stamps for every election he voted in
14. Mid of man and woman showing their inked finger after voting, holding a placard with a picture of Raisi and Gen. Qassim Soleimani, who was killed in a 2020 U.S. drone attack
15. Mid of men voting
16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Hossein Poorkazemi, 20, local resident:
"We are here to vote, and decide the destiny of our country and the region."
17. Mid of women voters
18. Close of hands of official working with electronic device
19. Mid of woman praying to god before casting ballot
STORYLINE:
Voting is underway in Iran’s presidential election on Friday in which four candidates are competing to replace late President Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country’s northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials.
Analysts broadly describe the race as a three-way contest. There are two hard-liners, former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and the parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. Then there’s the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has aligned himself with those seeking a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
While 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all matters of state, presidents can bend Iran toward confrontation or negotiations with the West.
After record-low turnout in recent elections, it remains unclear how many Iranians will take part in Friday’s poll. Public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East.
Despite this, residents in Rey told the Associated Press why they were still voting.
"Unfortunately some people think that the president has been already selected," said local resident Azam Fakhimi, 41.
"But we must vote, if I don’t vote someone else would vote and the candidate who is not the best might be elected, unfortunately. That would harm the Iranian nation," she added.
"We are here to vote, and decide the destiny of our country and the region," said another local resident Mohammad Hossein Poorkazemi, 20.
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