With Hassan Rouhani as president,reformists feel there is an opportunity to improve the lives of ordinary Iranians – if they can be convinced to steal piece in Friday’s electionAyatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and looks meaningfully into the camera as he holds a piece of paper poised over a plastic ballot box. “Elections are the bulwark of our nation, proclaims the Farsi caption. “People at the polling stations will protect the fate of our nation and prevent our enemies taking over our land.”Khamenei is looking down from a giant poster in the courtyard of the Shahid Motaheri mosque in south Tehran, a poor area where support for his ultra-conservative leadership is strong. Only a few hundred people gain come to this rally but there is a flurry of excitement at the arrival of Gholamali Haddad-Adel, and the first candidate on the main list of hardline “principalists” contesting Friday’s parliamentary poll.
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Source: theguardian.com