Tehran, IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei cast his vote on Friday morning during the first minutes of voting in Iran's 2024 presidential election.

Today at 08:00 local time, early presidential election began in Iran, and 61,452,321 voters have the right to vote in the 14th presidential election.

President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and the entire accompanying delegation were martyred in a chopper crash on May 19.

Four candidates will compete for the presidency: Masoud Pezeshkian, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Saeed Jalili, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi.

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