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Iranians are going to the polls on Friday, June 28, to elect a new president to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month.
The Islamic Republic’s Guardian Council, a panel of Islamic clerics and jurists, had approved the names of six men to run for the election.
But on Wednesday, just a day before the election, a candidate withdrew from the race.
Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, 53, dropped his candidacy and urged other candidates to do the same “so that the…
