Iran votes in its first parliament election since 2022 protests as questions over turnout loom

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An Iranian woman casts her vote during parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran on Friday..

Iran on Friday held the countrys first parliamentary election since the mass 2022 protests over mandatory hijab laws after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with questions looming over just how many people will turn out at the polls...

Iranian officials and even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have urged the public to cast ballots, but polling stations in the countrys capital, Tehran, appeared to see few voters...

Authorities have largely barred politicians calling for any change within the countrys theocracy, known broadly as reformists, from running in the election leaving mostly only a broad slate of conservative or hard-line figures...

Iranian state television showed crowded polling stations but elsewhere, there appeared to be few voters braving the freezing temperatures in Tehran...

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