“Due to calls for an extension of voting time, voting will be extended by another two hours,” he said.
This decision was the second of the day; earlier, the Iranian Election Commission extended the work of polling stations by two hours. It is worth noting that in the first round such extensions were announced three times. Then the polling stations closed only at midnight local time (23:30 Moscow time).
The first round of Iran’s snap presidential election, scheduled following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a plane crash in May, took place on June 28. As a result, former Health Minister and MP Masoud Pezeshkian and member of the Council for the Determination of Political Expediency Said Jalili entered the second round of voting. Voter turnout that day was around 40%. The results counted 24.5 million votes cast by voters in more than 58,000 polling stations in 482 regions of Iran.
