In his final speech before Iran’s presidential election on June 18, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Iranians to vote.
Polls have repeatedly shown that this year’s election will likely see the lowest voter turnout in recent history. One of the reasons for the low voter turnout is the high number of disqualifications that have left a small number of candidates to run. Another problem has been the economic crisis the country is suffering despite the fact that many Iranians voted in 2013 and 2017 for a candidate who promised to improve the economy through negotiations with the United States on the nuclear file.
