Voting Time of Iran Presidential Election Extended

The Iranian Interior Ministry has extended the voting time of Iran's 14th presidential election for a third two hours across the country. Polls opened at 8 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) today. They were supposed to close at 6:00 p.m. The spokesperson for Iran's election headquarters Mohsen Eslami announced on Friday that the time for voting has been extended for a third two hours until 12:00 a.m. (local time). As many as 58,640 polling stations in Iran and 344 others abroad have been set up for the 14th presidential election, according to Iran's news agency (IRNA). Over 61 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the election. Candidates Saeed Jalili, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Massoud Pezeshkian, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi have remained in the race, while Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Alireza Zakani have dropped their candidacy. Source: Qatar News Agency