Polling stations closed at midnight; voters inside still casting ballots

So far, 30.1 million people have cast their ballots in Iran's runoff presidential election, the Islamic Republic's official news agency IRNA reported, citing Alireza Salimi, a member of the Election's Executive Board.

The figure indicates that voter turnout has reached 49%, which is nine percent higher than the record-low turnout in the first round.

Iranian Green Movement leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, who have been under house arrest since 2011, boycotted the runoff election and rejected the proposal to vote through a mobile ballot box, Iran International has learned.

Mousavi and Rahnavard had abstained from voting in the first round as well, unlike fellow Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi, who voted for Masoud Pezeshkian in both rounds.

The Iranian government's official newspaper says over 29.3 million ballots have been cast as of 22:40 (local time), exceeding the 28.9 million votes in the 2021 elections, which ended with Ebrahim Raisi's victory.

Although these figures are not official results, they show that voter turnout has so far reached 47.6%, which is nearly eight percent higher than the record-low turnout in the first round held last week.