Principlist presidential candidate Sa’eed Jalili becomes the second candidate after Alireza Zakani to drop out of the June 18 presidential election in favor of fellow contender Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has delivered an address to the nation two days before polls open in Iran’s 13th presidential election, calling the forthcoming vote “decisive.”

As pre-election campaigning races to a close, voices have been uniting across Iran’s political, social and religious spectrum for a mass participation in the June 18 presidential election in order to bolster the nation’s global standing.

Principlist candidate Alireza Zakani drops out of the 2021 presidential election in support of fellow contender Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, who enjoys the highest support among voters, according to opinion polls.

Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh, one of the Reformist candidates in Iran’s presidential election, has dropped out of the race, in what will likely boost the chances of fellow Reformist Nasser Hemmati for election.

Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raeisi has met with shareholders in Iran’s stock exchange market who lost savings in a market tumble last year, promising to follow up on their demand for the return of their lost investment in equities.

Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei says economic development in Iran is impossible without reforms in its power structure, declaring “reform from within” and a “novel economic architecture” as two of his goals.

Iran’s senior Sunni Muslim cleric, Molavi Abdul Hamid, has thrown his weight behind presidential candidate Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, a fellow Shia Muslim cleric, in his bid for election as the country’s president.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, invites the Iranian people to participate in the June 18 presidential election.

A study by Press TV of voter inclinations has shown that Iranian presidential candidate Nasser Hemmati’s negative vote rate has seen the highest increase in Iranian provincial capitals before and after the three presidential debates.