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Iran's leaders warn low turnout in election will boost Trump

Voters set to shun Friday’s parliamentary poll in sign of protest or indifference
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a low turnout would benefit Donald Trump’s economic sanctions on the country. Photograph: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a low turnout would benefit Donald Trump’s economic sanctions on the country. Photograph: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Iran’s senior leaders flooded the media with eve-of-poll warnings that abstentions in Friday’s parliamentary elections – either through indifference or as a protest – will only encourage Donald Trump to step up economic sanctions against Tehran.

The one-week period of officially sanctioned campaigning for a seat in the next five year parliament ended on Wednesday night, 24 hours before voting started amid the first serious outbreak of coronavirus in Iran.

Fifty-eight million Iranians are entitled to vote in what the Iranian government claims is the benchmark for democracy in west Asia, but which many in the west dismiss as an elaborate charade. On Thursday the US announced sanctions against five members of the guardian council, saying the body that vets all parliamentary candidates was guilty of electoral manipulation.

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Source: The Guardian

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