{"id":20736,"date":"2021-06-18T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=20736"},"modified":"2021-06-18T21:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T16:07:53","slug":"iran-election-khamenei-calls-for-high-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/20736","title":{"rendered":"Iran election, Khamenei calls for high turnout."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Tehran,<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for a high turnout in the country\u2019s presidential election, in a contest likely to be won by a judge fiercely loyal to the religious establishment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-inline bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1 bsac-hide-on-phone\">\n<div id=\"bsac-438396-436818264\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-custom_code  bsac-hide-on-phone\" data-adid=\"438396\" data-type=\"custom_code\">After casting his vote in the capital Tehran, Khamenei said that \u201cEach vote counts, come and vote and choose your president, this is important for the future of your country\u201d.<\/div>\n<div data-adid=\"438396\" data-type=\"custom_code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The election cycle was largely dominated by voter apathy and issues regarding the ongoing nuclear talks and Iran\u2019s struggling economy both issues being seen as failures of the Rouhani administration.<\/p>\n<p>During debates leading up to the election, the candidates used much of their time to blame President Hassan Rouhani for government failures over the last eight years.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the combination of a list of nearly all hard line and conservative candidates along with deep seated voter apathy is likely to hand a win to Ebrahim Raisi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for a high turnout in the country\u2019s presidential election, in a contest likely to be won by a judge fiercely loyal to the religious establishment. After casting his vote in the capital Tehran, Khamenei said that \u201cEach vote counts, come and vote and choose your president, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1470,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20738,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20736\/revisions\/20738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}