From the first minutes of the voting process during the Iranian elections for the presidency, various media outlets around the world covered the event.
From the first minutes of the opening of ballot boxes throughout Iran and the presence of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution at the ballot box to participate in the 13th presidential election in Iran, as well as the enthusiastic presence of the people, this event has been widely covered in various news media.
Reuters was one of the first media outlets to cover the start of voting by covering the presence of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution at the ballot box.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, called for a large turnout in Friday’s election, Reuters reported.
The British news agency added that after casting their ballots in the ballot box, the Iranian leader announced: “Each vote is important … Come and vote and elect your president … This is important for the future of the country.”
The Russian news agency Tass, in a report on the start of the voting process in Iran, announced that the Iranians started going to the polling stations at 7 am (local time) to cast their ballots.
The news agency continued its news coverage, adding: Iran has established about 66,800 polling stations across the country. Iranians can also vote in 133 countries around the world, where more than 234 polling stations have been set up. A total of 52 million 310 thousand Iranians are eligible to vote.
The report further quotes Press TV as saying that the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution was present at the ballot box to cast his vote and advised the people to participate widely in the elections and that this issue is important for Iran’s interests.
The Associated Press also covered the Iranian election, citing the Supreme Leader’s participation in the 13th presidential election in Iran.
Al Jazeera reported that polling stations in Iran opened at 7 a.m., adding that ballot boxes would close at 12 p.m., but that voting could be extended for another two hours and that the results were expected to be announced around noon on Saturday.
The website of this Qatari network then mentions the participation of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution in the first minutes and also the presence of people in the queues to cast their votes in the ballot boxes based on the images broadcast from the Iranian internal networks.
The London-based Qatari newspaper Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed also wrote on the front page of its political section, updating the Iranian election news moment by moment: “High turnout in the early hours.”
The US-based CNBC, Turkey’s state-run T-Arti network and Anatolia news agency, the Japanese news website Nikki Izia, the Indian newspaper The Indian Express, as well as other Arabic-language media outlets were among the other foreign media outlets that Widespread coverage of elections in Iran.
According to reports Ebrahim Raisi has won the Iranian elections.
