Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei kicked off the country’s presidential election on Friday, as Iranians decide whether they want to continue the country’s hardline conservative course or take a more moderate stance. Casting his vote in the capital Tehran, Khamenei urged the nation to participate in the vote to “prove the correctness and honesty of the system of the Islamic Republic.” Some 61 million voters in Iran are eligible to elect a successor to hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May. The polling stations were scheduled to close at 6 pm local time (1430 …