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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot on June 18, 2021, on the day of the Islamic republic's presidential election.  - Sputnik International

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Iran's sitting president, Hassan Rouhani, is not taking part in the 2021 election, as his second tenure is coming to an end. Polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. until midnight, local time.

The 13th presidential election started in Iran early Friday, allowing any Iranian citizen over the age of 18 to cast a vote.

Initially, there were seven candidates for the presidential post in Iran, but only four have continued to compete for the position. Among them are a top judge, Ebrahim Raisi; the Central Bank chief, Abdolnaser Hemmati; a lawmaker, Sayyid Ghazizadeh, and Mohsen Rezaee, the head of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council.

The incumbent president is not running, as Iran has a two-term limit for the presidency.

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Several dozen opponents of the Iranian authorities gathered outside the country's embassy in London on Friday, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene.

The protesters gathered on the opposite side of the street from the embassy and have been cordoned off by the police.

The demonstrators are waving Iranian national flags and posters, chanting slogans for the suspension of the "shameful" elections in Iran.

Several police officers guard the entrance to the embassy,  but the protesters are sticking to their location and have not tried to approach the building. The gathering is peaceful; no clashes with the police have been reported.

The Iranian presidential election kicked off on Friday. Four presidential candidates are vying for office, including incumbent Ebrahim Raisi, a leading judge, Central Bank chief Abdolnaser Hemmati, lawmaker Sayyid Ghazizadeh and Mohsen Rezaee, the head of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council.

Incumbent President Hassan Rouhani cannot run for the post as he is now completing his second term, the maximum permitted under Iranian law.

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Shortly after the polls opened in Iran on Friday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted that election day "is the day of the Iranian nation", stating that people will be "determining the country's future for the coming years by voting."

Khamenei has cast the first ceremonial vote in the election.

03:10 GMT 18.06.2021

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Polling stations opened on Friday in Iran for people to cast their votes in a presidential election.

The country's polling stations are opened from 7 a.m. to midnight local time (02:30 to 19:30 GMT). Polling stations will also open in four Russian cities — Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Astrakhan. Each Russian city will have one polling station.

The country currently has 59.3 million registered voters out of a total of 84.51 million citizens.

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