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Tehran: Iran is holding a presidential election today after the death of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in the mountains of northwestern Iran. But voters do not have much choice as all the candidates are followers of Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Women do not have the right to vote in the election, nor do reformists, which takes place amid regional tensions and an imminent war with Israel. Depression is also rampant in the country.
Usually: voting starts at 8 am, and ends at 6 pm. But here the voting has to continue till midnight.
Observers say that the voting percentage is likely to be low. Because the youth are getting disappointed with the radical right-wing policies of the supreme religious leader Ayatollah. In this, on one hand he tries to make a nuclear device in the form of an atomic bomb. At the same time, about 50 percent of the country's population (women) is kept away from voting. Also, the reformists were not given the right to vote.
Intellectuals are worried due to Iran's failure to reach a nuclear agreement with America.
The four candidates in the election include Mohammad Baqer Khalilaf, the speaker of parliament and former commander of the Revolutionary Guards, and Saeed Jalati, who played a leading role in nuclear negotiations with the United States, and Jashud Pazdelshian, who is also a loyal servant of Iran's theocratic regime. But he is a reformist. It has been speculated that the reformist's chances look low.
On the other hand, there is no possibility of any change in Iran's foreign policy or domestic policy because all those policies are ultimately determined by hardline religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.