Middle East Spectator

— 🇮🇷 Dr. Saeed Jalili arrives in Tehran on his campaign trail, and is received by big crowds of zealous supporters @Middle_East_Spectator

— We congratulate all Muslims on the joyous occasion of Eid al-Ghadeer 🎉 أسعد الله أيّامكم بمناسبة عيد الغدير الأغر @Middle_East_Spectator

خادم مردم #جليلی

Just 4 days until the election.

— 🇮🇷 Last ISPA (Iranian Students Polling Agency) poll was just published: – Pezeshkian (Reformist) overtakes Jalili, leading with 24.4% of the vote. – Jalili (Hardline) closely behind in second place, with 24% of the vote. – Ghalibaf (Populist) loses a lot of ground, going from 19% to 14.7% of the vote in today's poll. – Other candidates combined have less than 4% of the vote. If Ghazizadeh-Hashemi (Conservative) or Zakani (Hardline) withdraw, their share of the vote (3.7%) will go to Jalili, and Pourmohammadi's (Reformist) share of the vote (0.6%) will go to Pezeshkian. @Middle_East_Spectator

🇷🇺🏴⚡️- BTR-80s (possibly BTR-90s) from the Rosgvardia being deployed to Derbent, Dagestan.

🇷🇺🏴⚡️- Reports of 40 hostages being held inside a church in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Pezeshkian knows that if he wants to have any chance at winning the election, he needs to produce progressively more extreme Liberal and anti-regime rhetoric, to somehow convince the masses of non-religious folks to vote for him.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran's Reformist Presidential candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, is now openly spreading anti-regime incitement, claiming that Mahsa Amini was killed by security forces, while this was disproven several times by independent and state doctors He also says that the obligatory Hijab rule should be abolished, and referred to the 2022 Western-backed anti-government riots as 'protests'. Additionally, he calls for increased autonomy of ethnic groups within Iran, like Kurds and Turks, and has expressed Pan-Turkist ideas in the past. Perhaps worst of all, he advocates for a return to the Nuclear Deal and ties with the West, while knowing that it was the United States that unilaterally canceled the agreement, leaving Iran in an economic crisis. @Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇵🇰/ 🇦🇫 NEW: Pakistan has announced the martyrdom of five soldiers in counter terrorism operations against TTP terrorists two days ago @Middle_East_Spectator