Iranian citizens inside and outside the country headed to polling stations to cast their ballots to elect the next president in the election runoff on Friday.
Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) on Friday and were scheduled to close at 6:00 p.m. (1430 GMT) but the Interior Ministry announced that the voting hours were extended for two more hours until 8 PM. There was the possibility of more extensions until midnight like the first round of votes.
Mohsen Eslami, the spokesperson for the national election headquarters, told reporters in a briefing at around 3:00 PM Tehran local time that people's participation has increased in comparison with the first round.
In an update on the turnout, Eslami said that by 5 PM, over 14 million people had cast their ballots in the runoff, two million more than in the first round.
The voting process is going smoothly at more than 58,000 polling stations across the country, the Interior Ministry's officials have said.
MNA