Polls open in Iranian presidential election

Around 61 million Iran ians are eligible to vote in the polls where reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, 69, hopes for a breakthrough win against a divided conservative camp.

"We start the elections" for the country's 14th presidential ballot, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in a televised address. The candidacy of Masoud Pezeshkian, until recently a relative unknown, has revived cautious hopes for Iran's reformist wing after years of dominance by the conservative and ultraconservative camps.Mr Khatami, who served from 1997 to 2005, had also endorsed the moderate Hassan Rouhani, who won the presidency and sealed Iran's nuclear deal in 2015 with Western powers before it was derailed three years later.Ultimate political power in Iran is held by Khamenei, the supreme leader.

Saeed Jalili said the deal, which the United States withdrew from in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump,"did not benefit Iran at all". The contentious issue of the compulsory head covering for women also emerged during the campaign, almost two years since a vast protest movement swept the country after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22.

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