(4 Jul 2024)
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Tehran, Iran – 4 July 2024
1. Traffic on road, wide of billboard with picture of Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist candidate. Text on billboard reading (Farsi): "I, Masoud Pezeshkian, will break the dam of sanctions."
2. Close of Pezeshkian picture
3. Pezeshkian poster
4. Pedestrians
5. Newspaper headline reading (Farsi): "All who want the country’s progress should take part in election"
6. Headline reading "Pezeshkian or Jalili, People to decide tomorrow"
7. Newspapers
8. Setup shot of man looking at headlines
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) no name given, Tehran resident:
"I don’t think I’ll vote in the runoff. Because I didn’t hear positive things from the candidates; they didn’t talk about any plans. So it doesn’t matter if I vote or not. Apparently it’s going to be the same story as always: some promises are given and will not be implemented."
10. Pedestrians
11. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Zare (no first name given), Tehran resident:
"The question is how many promises by the presidential candidates has been fulfilled during the past 43 years? The results must be felt in the economy and people’s livelihoods."
12. Ahmad Zaidabadi, political analyst
13. Low angle of Zeidabadi
14. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ahmad Zaidabadi, political analyst:
"What he (Masoud Pezeshkian) plans to do is clear. In general he plans to open the cultural, political and diplomatic space more than it is now, and by doing this improve the economic situation."
15. Cutaway of Zeidabadi’s hand
16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ahmad Zaidabadi, political analyst:
"Negotiations with Europe, reaching an agreement, or even indirect or direct talks with the U.S., are achievable if the president wants an agreement. After all, Iran has reached the conclusion that the sanctions need to be lifted and the nuclear tensions must be put out."
17. Zeidabadi talking
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Tehran, Iran – 3 July 2024
18. Traffic on road
19. Poster of candidate Saeed Jalili
20. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mahmoud Reza Kabiri Yeganeh, political analyst:
++ON WHETHER SAEED JALILI IS SEEKING TO RESTRICT ACCESS TO INTERNET++
"We are seeking to protect our children against the huge flow of information, exactly like what is being done in America, France or Britain. We are looking for such frameworks. It doesn’t mean that we want to restrict or block the internet."
21. Various of people in market
22. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mahmoud Reza Kabiri Yeganeh, political analyst:
++ON HOW JALILI PLANS TO DEAL WITH THE NUCLEAR DEAL AND U.S SANCTIONS++
"It was them (the Americans) who disrupted the negotiations. Basically we believe that the Americans can’t be dealt with correctly, because they tell you something and then they change, they ruin the talks in the next meeting."
23. Jalili’s poster
24. Traffic
25. Pedestrians
26. Traffic on road
STORYLINE:
Iran will hold a runoff presidential election Friday, only its second since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, after only 39.9% of its voting public cast a ballot the previous week.
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