Television cameras zoomed in on his hand Friday as Iran's supreme leader filled out the first ballot in the national election to replace outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slipped the folded paper into the ballot box and turned to the cameras. His vote officially opened the ballots as he called on the 50 million Iranians eligible to vote to pick one of six candidates in the "epic" election.
"My expectation of our endeared people is for everyone to take part, and I would recommend that they go to ballot boxes as soon as possible and not to delay," he said.
Iranians appeared to heed their leader's call, with voters flocking to the country's 60,000 voting stations. The six candidates also have cast their votes, according to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency.
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Well cute. My trolls post stays up and my disclaimer gets deleted! I did not post at all yesterday on ANY thread!
@chrissy
Who cares
Lol @ Jacob, thanks for the advice. You can have the pizza and i'll have an irish cream and coffee and relax ok?
Ok.
Nitey nite now. Dont go causin no trouble tonite either dude! :L
blocked right away.
@saywhat,chrissy,good mornin and I too was blocked by those scoundrels that work for CNN.No matter who takes the helm in Iran they'll still be puppets under the Ayatollah..This is just a simple transfusion of fresh political blood because Ahmadinejad was losing his grip on the Iranian people and their government knew it...Take care all and happy posting ..
Good morning all & @Pete
With the reformist backed moderate Rouhani as PM there is bound to be a change in Iran's stance against the belligerent West standing in for Israel.
This the time for US for the sake of its own interests in the region, to grab this opportunity and engage them in earnest and result oriented talks.
@saywhat,yes right on but the windows small and with outside interference from Russia,China ,others in that region it'll be hard to get a civil dialogue in there at this time between the new president and Pres.Obama or whoevers sent as maybe Kerry might be as SOS....Maybe just a simple welcome to break the ice ,it never hurts to act social today and remember keep your friends close and your enemies closer,even in this mad world...Take care...