Voting gets under way in Iran to pick new president

Voting got under way Friday in Iran's presidential election that is widely seen as a choice between incumbent Hassan Rouhani, a moderate reformist, and his hard-line conservative rival Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, a former attorney general.More than 56 million Iranians are eligible to cast ballots at around 63,500 polling stations set up across country, which opened at 8 a.m. and will close at 6 p.m.Presidential elections are held every four years in Iran and this one will be the 12th since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.The latest voter survey predicted voter turnout at over 70 percent and showed …READ FULL ARTICLE