The eyes of the Arab media are fixed on Iran
Mehr News, International Group: While the counting of votes for the presidential elections in Iran continues, the prominent media of the Arab world carefully covered the preliminary results and speculated about The elections are drawn into the second round. Each of these media reports the lead of one of the candidates by covering the election results moment by moment; This is despite the fact that the final results of the presidential election have not yet been announced.
The Al-Mayadin network site wrote about the election results: So far, part of the votes of the Iranian presidential election have been counted and it seems that this election will be extended to the second round. After more than 12 million votes were counted, Masoud Mezikian got 41% of the votes and Saeed Jalili got 39% of the votes. Ghalibaf and Pourmohammadi are in the next ranks.
In this regard, Banna Lebanon reported: On Friday, Iran witnessed the holding of the first round of early presidential elections after the martyrdom of Seyed Ebrahim Raisi. Meanwhile, the initial results of the election indicate the possibility of it being extended to the second round, because according to the constitution, each candidate must win more than 50% of the votes.
Russia Elium also covered the election results and wrote: After counting 12 million votes, Masoud Bijikian is ahead of Saeed Jalili by a small margin. Iran’s Ministry of Interior has announced that Ghalibaf and Pourmohammadi are in the next positions.
The Al Jazeera network wrote about this: The preliminary results of the vote counting in Iran show that the candidate of the reformists, Masoud Al-Majjian, is in the lead. Meanwhile, Saeed Jalili, the candidate of the fundamentalists, is in the next rank. Currently, more than 12 million votes have been counted.
The Al-Arabiya website also reported: the initial results of the Iranian presidential election indicate the lead of two reformist candidates, namely Masoud Al-Madijian and fundamentalist Saeed Jalili. While earlier, the Ministry of Interior announced that Jalili was in the lead, but with the counting of more votes, it became clear that currently, Median is in the first place.
While the counting of votes is still going on, Al-Arabiya network website claimed 40% participation of Iranian citizens in this election.
Al-Sharq wrote about the election results: Iran’s Ministry of Interior has announced the lead of Saeed Jalili after counting part of the votes for the Iranian presidential election. In this election, four candidates competed for the post of president, and two candidates named Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Zakani announced their withdrawal from the election. Saeed Jalili has a doctorate degree in political science and was elected by the leader of the revolution as the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and worked for five years.
The American website Al-Hura also wrote in this regard: Iranian TV announced the lead of the only candidate of the reformists in the presidential elections of this country, namely Masoud Mezikian.
The 69-year-old doctor is the oldest among the candidates for Iran’s presidential election. His election campaign was widely supported by reformists.
Arabic site 21 also wrote in this regard: The examination of the preliminary results of the Iranian presidential election indicates that this election will most likely be extended to the second round, because None of the leading candidates have been able to win more than 50% of the votes. Currently, according to the announced results, Masoud Mezikian is in the first place and Saeed Jalili is in the next place. Yesterday, the voting process in Iran’s presidential election was extended three times.
