BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 28. Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has taken part in voting in Iran's extraordinary presidential election today, Trend reports.
He cast his vote at a polling station set up in the Foreign Ministry building in Tehran.
Iran is holding an extraordinary presidential election today. Voting began at 08:00 local time and will continue for 10 hours. If the Ministry of Interior sees fit, they can stretch the voting time.
Four candidates are vying for the presidency: Masoud Pezeshkian, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Saeed Jalili, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi.
For this election, a whopping 58,640 constituencies have been set up within the country, while a mere 344 have been established outside the country. A total of 61,452,321 voters are eligible to rock the vote.
To note, on May 19, a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Tabriz Province Imam Ayatollah Ali Hashim, and East Azerbaijan Province Governor-General Malek Rahmati crashed while flying from Khudafarin to Tabriz, and the Iranian President and the entire accompanying delegation were confirmed dead.
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