Top Iranian officials vote

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei voted at a polling station in Tehran on Friday morning.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani, Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Judiciary Chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, and Seyyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the late Imam Khomeini, the Founder of the Islamic Republic, also voted in Friday’s parliamentary election.

The polls closed at 11:00 p.m. local time, and the process of counting ballots has begun.

Over 48 million Iranian citizens were eligible to vote in the election, 3.9 million of them for the first time.

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