Iranians are voting for a new president – but the first round of the election saw the lowest voter turnout in the country’s history. Will more people turn out on Friday for the final round of the vote, or will this trend continue? And why has turnout been so low? 

In this episode: 

• Maziar Motamedi (@MotamediMaziar), Journalist

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by David Enders, Duha Mossad and Marcos Bartolomé. With Amy Walters, Manahil Naveed, Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan, Veronique Eshaya, and our host Kevin Hirten in for Malika Bilal.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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