Iranian embassies, consulates allowed to extend voting time
The overseas
election headquarters announced on Friday evening that all the envoys and heads
of the Islamic Republic of Iran's overseas representatives have been given the
authority to extend the voting time if the Iranian expatriates have not yet
voted and stay at voting centers.
Iran’s
presidential election is being held nationwide, as well as in 133 countries.
59,310,307 Iranians are eligible to vote, from which 1.3 million are first-voters
and 3.5 million are Iranian expatriates, according to statistics from the
Ministry of Interior.
The 13th
presidential election is held simultaneous with the sixth round of city and
village councils elections, the first mid-term for 11th parliament’s
by-election, and the second mid-term for the fifth Assembly of Experts
election.
Presidential
candidates include Expediency Discernment Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei
Mirqaed, Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, MP Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh and former
Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati. Saeed Jalili, Mohsen Mehralizadeh and
Alireza Zakani, are three other presidential candidates, who dropped out of the
presidential race.
Some 500
international journalists from 226 foreign media are covering the event in
Iran.
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