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Feb 21 - #Iran
Faced with unprecedented low voter turnout, authorities are cancelling finger-stamps & allowing people to vote with photo-lacking IDs.
This will allow further vote rigging for officials to claim "massive participation."
#IranShamElections
Feb 21 - #Iran
Census offices are open today to issue IDs for people seeking to vote, official says.

Regime authorities are resorting to desperate measures to rig the vote count as tens of million of people are boycotting the mullahs' elections farce.
#IranShamElections
Feb 21 - #Iran
Zeynab Hassani says she is covering the regime's elections as a "Guardian Council observer".
She shows a "reporter" ID stamped by the Interior Ministry & signed by the Tehran Province Security Dept. chief.

My take:
Regime intel is controlling the elections.
Feb 21 - #Iran
Snapshot from state TV
Same image used to show voting stations of three different sites.
Top left - Sanandaj - Gurtenian Nezhad School
Top right - Qorveh - Hadaf School
Bottom right - Sanandaj - Heyrate Sajjadi School
#IranShamElections
Feb 21 - #Iran
Snapshots from state TV
Left - Footage shows a polling station in Zahedan (SE Iran)
Right - Same footage shown claiming to be a polling station in Bojnurd (NE Iran)
#FakeNews
Feb 21 - #Iran

State TV's "Alborz" network shows a polling station in the city of Fardis, west of Tehran.

Switching the channel to state TV's "Sports" network shows the same polling station feed, while claiming it to be from the city of Qom, south of Tehran.

#FakeNews
Feb 21 - #Iran

Live state TV broadcasting the same feed from one polling station for two different cities.

Top - Gorgan, northern Iran

Bottom - Yazd, central Iran

#FakeNews
Feb 21 - #Iran

People taking footage of a Majlis (parliament) elections candidate & shouting he is giving cash handouts to buy locals' votes.

#FakeElections
Feb 21 - Qaemshahr, northern #Iran

Live state TV:

Woman: "... some of these so-called candidates were seen buying & selling votes."

Reporter: "No. Let's not discuss that issue. You, my dear, come closer..."

#FakeElections
Feb 21 - #Iran
Authorities extended voting hours to 11 pm local time. Reports indicate people were bused to polling stations & given cash handouts to vote.
#FakeElections
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