— 🇮🇷 The Speaker of Parliament & Presidential candidate of the first round, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, casted his vote

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— 🇮🇷 Voter turnout is noticeably higher than last week. Not a good sign for Jalili.

Turnout, as of 15 minutes ago, stands at around 18%, it stood at only 13% last Friday.

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— 🇮🇷 To give some hope to Jalili supporters:

Rural turnout has increased, and Jalili's campaign has been going village to village in order to convince the populace to vote, especially in Kurd / Turk provinces, who overwhelmingly voted for Pezeshkian.

Also, in the past few days, many major Sunni community leaders in Iran have endorsed Saeed Jalili over Masoud Pezeshkian, including in Balochistan.

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— 🇮🇷 The election, based on the expected turnout, will be EXTREMELY close.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: As of half an hour ago, voter turnout has already exceeded 40%, which was the total voter turnout last Friday during the first round

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Rural turnout is much higher than expected.

Good for Jalili.

Will it be enough? Nobody knows.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Voter turnout has surpassed 47%, with two hours left of voting – it will likely surpass 50% by midnight, making it higher than in the 2021 Presidential election

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Voter turnout of Iranians abroad has increased by 60-70% in some countries

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Voter turnout has surpassed 51% – exceeding the turnout of the 2021 Presidential election – with half an hour left

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Regardless of the outcome, voter turnout since 2021 is now back in an uptrend, which is a very good thing.

— 🇮🇷 An Iranian voter in Germany reveals his Khamenei T-Shirt in front of an angry mob of liberal anti-IR diaspora protestors

Via: https://t.me/khomeinichan

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— ❗️WARNING:

In the coming hours, the enemies of the Islamic Republic will likely try to doubt the integrity of the election results.

Iran International, an opposition news outlet, has already started to claim that the turnout has been manipulated. If Dr. Saeed Jalili wins the election, external enemies will try even harder to discredit the result, just like they did in 2009.

Whatever the result, it is fair and watertight; both candidates have representatives in all polling stations to monitor the counting of the votes. Large scale fraud is impossible.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The three provinces with the highest voter turnout are Yazd (70.9%), South Khorasan (70.24%), and Koohgiluyeh - Boyer Ahmad (68.74%)

All of these provinces went mainly to Dr. Saeed Jalili during the first round of the Presidential election last Friday.

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There are NO results yet, neither official nor non-official.

Any channel that claims otherwise is wrong.

Masoud Pezeshkian's security team has been replaced with an increased security detail.

—❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: REFORMIST CANDIDATE PEZESHKIAN LEADS

FIRST OFFICIAL VOTE COUNT:

Votes counted: 2,547,381

Pezeshkian: 1,263,874

Jalili: 1,244,640

Source: Election Headquarters, Iranian Ministry of Interior – Fars News

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