Polling stations across Iran have opened on Friday morning for the 14th presidential election. The voting started at 8:00 a.m. (04:30 GMT) on Friday. It will continue until evening, with the minister of interior having the authority to extend the voting time if necessary.

Iranians have headed to the polls as soon as the stations opened to elect the country’s new president.

Former health minister and senior lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian and former nuclear negotiator and chief of the top security body Saeed Jalili are in the race after securing the most votes among others in the first round.

More than 61,450,000 eligible Iranian voters can take part in the ongoing elections inside the country and abroad.

The individuals born on or before June 28, 2006, are eligible to vote.

Forces from the Police, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Basij are tasked with ensuring the security of the election.

The new administration, the 14th one after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, will assume power in July and hold office for four years. The polls take place a year ahead of schedule, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi passed away in May.

A helicopter carrying President Raeisi and his entourage crashed in northwestern mountainous forests on May 19, killing the president, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and six others.

In the following you can find the latest update from Iran’s presidential election:

Leader casts his vote

As soon as the voting kicked off, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei cast his ballot in snap presidential elections at a polling station in Tehran on Friday.

More than 200 reporters from domestic and foreign media, including reporters from the US, China, Russia, Germany, Spain, UK, Afghanistan, Austria, Turkey, Kuwait, Netherlands, UAE, Italy, Iraq, Yemen, Japan, France, Philippines, Lebanon , Qatar, Oman, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, India, South Korea and… covered the news of the Leader casting his vote in Imam Khomeini’s Hosseiniyeh.

Interior Minister Vahidi cast his vote

The Iranian Minister of Interior, Ahmad Vahidi was the second official who cast his vote for the second stage of the 14th presidential election on Friday.

Polls open in Bangkok, Jakarta, Bangladesh for Iran’s presidential election run-off.

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