Posts Tagged National elections

Iran’s leader jabs US as presidential vote begins

An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger after voting in the presidential and municipal council elections at a polling station in Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iran's supreme leader delivered a salty rebuke to the U.S. Friday as Iranians lined up to vote in a presidential election that has suddenly become a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide: hard-liners looking to cement their control and re-energized reformists backing the lone moderate. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran’s ruling clerics.

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5 things to know about Iran’s presidential vote

A little girl helps her mother with casting a ballot at a polling center during the presidential election in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iranian voters appeared to heed calls to cast ballots Friday in a presidential election that has suddenly become a showdown across Iran's political divide: Hard-liners looking to cement their control and re-energized reformists backing the lone moderate left in the race. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)

Iran has started announcing preliminary vote counts from Friday’s presidential election. Here are five things you should know:

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Iranian-Americans and expatriates vote in election

A woman places her ballot in a box as Iranians outside their country of origin cast ballots in Iran's presidential election,  in a hotel meeting room in Los Angeles Friday, June 14, 2013. Iranian-Americans and expatriates cast ballots Friday in polling places across the United States, joining their countrymen half a world away in selecting the next Iranian president (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With their passports in tow, Iranian-Americans and expatriates trickled into polling sites across the United States on Friday, joining their countrymen half a world away in voting in Iran’s presidential election.

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Inside Iran’s presidential election and beyond

Head-to-toe veiled Iranian women attend a polling station to vote for the presidential and municipal councils elections in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. What Iran's next president can potentially influence is the tone and tactics with world powers if stalemated nuclear talks resume at some point after a successor is picked for the firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Some questions about Friday’s presidential election and beyond:

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A look at Iran’s voters and election process

In front of a portrait of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supporters of the presidential candidate Ali Akbar Velayati, a conservative former foreign minister, hold up balloons in a campaign rally, two days prior to the election, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A look at Iran’s voters, presidents and election procedures:

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