{"id":10002,"date":"2021-06-18T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T05:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10002"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T05:52:49","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-votes-in-the-presidential-election-calls-for-high-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10002","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s supreme leader votes in the presidential election, calls for high turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, June 18 &#8212; Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday voted in the presidential election, urging his fellow citizens to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sputnik, the country&#8217;s polling stations will be open\u00a0from 7 am\u00a0to midnight local time (02.30 to 19.30 GMT). Polling stations will also open in four Russian cities &#8211;\u00a0Moscow, St\u00a0Petersburg, Kazan and Astrakhan. Each Russian city will have one polling station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png\" alt=\"iran's\" class=\"wp-image-10003\" width=\"506\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png 592w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48-160x100.png 160w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48-350x218.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Even a single vote matters. The faster you do it, the better. I hope the people will be satisfied with their choice,&#8221; Khamenei said in a broadcast speech, calling the election a major challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four presidential candidates are vying for the office, including top judge Ebrahim Raisi, Central Bank chief Abdolnaser Hemmati, lawmaker Sayyid Ghazizadeh and Mohsen Rezaee, the head of Iran&#8217;s Expediency Discernment Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incumbent President Hassan Rouhani cannot run for the post as he is now completing his second term, the maximum permitted under Iranian law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/world\/news.php?id=1973240\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, June 18 &#8212; Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday voted in the presidential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48-300x187.png",300,187,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-13.50.48.png",592,369,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10004,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions\/10004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}