Iran presidential election campaigns gain momentum as vote draws near

(15 Jun 2024)
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Tehran, Iran - 14 June 2024
1. Worshippers outside the University of Tehran after Friday prayers
2. Leaflets with picture of hardline candidate Saeed Jalili being handed out
3. Jalili supporter shouting "Let's not allow the blood of our martyr (Ebrahim Raisi) to be wasted. Oh Allah!"
4. Close of placard with picture of Jalili, placard on left reading (Farsi): "Our vote is only Jalili"
5. Supporters holding placards
6.SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Reza Mirzaee, 37, Tehran resident:
"Certainly the candidate who is most similar to the martyr Mr. (Ebrahim) Raisi, the servant of the people, will be elected. He will complete Raisi's plans and will even be better than him."
7. Supporters handing out leaflets
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mostafa Mollasalehi, 52, Tehran resident:
"Let's vote for someone who can keep his word, and continue the path of martyr Raisi. Someone that can work day and night."
9. Supporter shouting (Farsi): "We will vote for the best and most acceptable candidate, our vote is for Saeed Jalili."
10. Close of Jalili's picture
11. Supporter saying (Farsi): "We'll meet 28 of June, our vote is Saeed Jalili"
12. Wide of worshipers and supporters
13. Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist candidate surrounded by supporters
14. Women cheering
15. Pezeshkian and his daughter talking to supporters who cheer and clap
16. Pezeshkian sitting down surrounded by supporters
17. Various of supporters
18. Pezeshkian kissing young girl
19. Woman taking pictures
20. Pezeshkian surrounded by women
21. Supporters clapping
22. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist candidate:
"If you Iranian women and girls, and others who have boycotted ballot boxes decide to vote, you can at least stop the other side with their close-minded and totalitarian views."
23.Woman taking video with her phone
24.SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Pezeshkian, reformist candidate:
"Women who wear different clothes (without hijab) likely don't have any issues with our beliefs and faith. They want to dress like that, others want to dress differently. But when we harass them with methods we call "Light" (Iran's morality police) we turn them against us. We turn them against religion and beliefs."
25. Supporters clapping
STORYLINE:
Election campaigns are gaining momentum in Iran as the 28 June presidential vote draws near.

5 hardliners and 1 reformist candidate are competing to become president after former president Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month.

The vote comes after recent elections saw record-low turnouts, and as tensions remain high over the country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, as well as the Israel-Hamas war.

Among the competitors is Saeed Jalili, a prominent hardliner and a former nuclear negotiator.

"Certainly the candidate who is most similar to the martyr Mr. (Ebrahim) Raisi, the servant of the people, will be elected. He will complete Raisi's plans and will even be better than him," said Mohammad Reza Mirzaee, a Jalili supporter.





Other candidates include Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Alireza Zakani, Mostafa Pourmohammadi and Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi.




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