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By bne Tehran bureau Iranians across the country are voting in a snap presidential election in which many liberal people are voting for the lone so-called “Reformist” candidate on June 28. More than 60mn people in the country and abroad are eligible to vote in the early election that is taking place following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash close to the border of Azerbaijan. Over the past week, a groundswell of support from different factions has circled around Masoud Pezeshkian, 69, whose main competition appears to be centrist corporatist Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and extremist…

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