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Opposition leader's son denies father voted in Iran election

Published: 26 Feb 2016 - 06:49 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 10:45 am
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Iranians hold their identification cards as they line up outside a polling station at Massoumeh shrine during the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at a polling station in the holy city of Qom, 130kms south of the capital Tehran, on February 26, 2016. AFP

 

ANKARA: Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi has not voted yet in Iran's elections, his son told Reuters on Friday, denying earlier reports his father had cast his ballot for the first time since being put under house arrest in 2011.

"As of yet, my father, Mehdi Karroubi has not had the opportunity to cast his vote despite his decision to vote," Mohammad Taghi Karoubi told Reuters.

The Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that all Iranians would be able to vote for parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the body that chooses the country's top leader.

REUTERS