Head of Iran's election headquarters said Thursday that as many as 61,452,321 people are eligible to vote in tomorrow's snap presidential elections.
Shahcheraghi had previously said that around 60,000 polling stations have been set up for Friday's presidential elections.
He added that equipment and facilities have been dispatched to the country's provinces and necessary measures have been taken to ensure a smooth voting process.
Meanwhile, the elections headquarters said in a statement released on Thursday evening that the polls open at 8 o'clock in the morning. The voters will need IDs to be able to cast their votes at the polling stations, the headquarters stressed.
Moreover, the secretary and spokesperson for the Election Headquarters, Mohsen Eslami, elaborated that “a total of 58,640 polling stations have been anticipated across the country, of which 24,522 are urban stations and 24,118 are rural,” during an interview with Iranian state TV.
He further mentioned that 43,425 of these stations will be stationary, while 15,215 will be mobile, and an additional 340 polling stations have been set up across around 100 countries for Iranian voters living abroad.
This follows an earlier announcement by the National Election Headquarters that candidate Alireza Zakani has withdrawn from the presidential race, making him the second candidate to withdraw after Amir-Hossein Ghazi-Zadeh Hashemi on 26 June.
The four remaining candidates are Masoud Pezeshkian, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi, Saeed Jalili, and Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf.
The presidential elections come under extraordinary circumstances following the tragic death of President Ebrahim Raeisi and his entourage in a helicopter crash on May 19. The crash occurred in Iran’s northwestern mountainous region, leaving a significant leadership void.
Iran police chief says no security incident during voting process so far:
The commander-in-chief of Law Enforcement Command (Police) said on Friday afternoon that no security incident has taken place during the voting process across Iran, stressing that the election process was underway in full security.
Iranians in Brunei cast ballots at embassy
Iranian nationals residing in Brunei Darussalam went to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the capital to vote in the 14th presidential election.
Silvia Guerra, a Spanish journalist covers Iran's elections
Iranians residing in Bonn, Germany cast their ballots:
Iranian nationals residing in Germany went to a polling station in the city of Bonn in Germany to vote on Friday morning.
Here are the latests on the voting process in Iranian snap presidential elections:
Iranian citizens in Azerbaijan cast their ballots in the 14th presidential election:
Voting underway in 95 countries:
The spokesman of the Guardian Council Hadi Tahan Nazif said after casting his vote in Tehran that polling stations have been set up in as many as 95 countries across the globe.
Iranians in the Bangladeshi capital cast their votes:
Iranian citizens in Dhaka, Bangladesh went to the polls to vote in Iran's 14th presidential election.
Larijani casts his ballot in Mazandaran:
Former long-serving speaker of the parliament Ali Larijani went to a polling station in northern Province of Mazandaran on Friday to cast his vote.
Iranians in Dubai go to polls:
Iranians in Istanbul go to polls:
Iranian expats in Iraq cast their ballots:
Ayatollah Amoli Larijani casts his vote:
Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani the head of the Expediency Council cast his vote at a polling station at the Guardian Council compound in downtown Tehran.
Former president Khatami casts his vote:
The former President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, 80-year-old, cast his ballot at a polling station in Hosseiniyeh Ershad early on Friday.
People in Kerman go to polls:
People in the southeastern city of Kerman were queing at a polling station set up next to the grave of martyr General Ghassem Soleimani, the former IRGC Quds Force, to casts their ballots.
Zakani casts his vote:
Alireza Zakani, the mayor of Tehran who withdrew from the presidential race yesterday cast his ballot at a polling station in Tehran on Friday morning.
Presidential candidate Ghalibaf casts his ballot:
The current speaker of the parliament Mohammad Bagheri Ghalibaf who is running in the presidential contests cast his ballot at a polling station at Shah Abdol-Azim Hasani Shrine in the south of Tehran.
Interim President Mohammad Mokhber casts his ballot:
Mohammad Mokhbar, interim president of the country, cast his vote early on Friday at a polling station at the Ministry of Interior and visited the country's election headquarters.
Iran’s interim president, Mohammad Mokhber says that the voting process in Iran does not permit any violations or mistakes.
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