Voting for Iran’s 14th presidential election started on Friday, months after President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month.
“We start the elections” for the country’s 14th presidential elections, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in a televised address.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei cast the first ballot at a polling station and made a brief speech calling for the unity of the Iranian people during the election
The voting will be held at close to 59,000 polling stations in more than 95 states, and over 61 million people are eligible to vote in the election, according to authorities.