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Election Day in Iran.

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Eddie Mair | 07:50 UK time, Friday, 12 June 2009

Hugh Sykes will report for The World at One and PM.

While we were on air last night, Hugh emailed these photos and words:

"Teheran: So many chadors, so many smart cafes, so many smiles:

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Here's a selection of Ahmadinejad supporters, often chanting "Ahmadi, Ahmadi!"

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And this is an old friend of President Ahmadinejad:

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Prof Nasser Hadian, who used to play street football with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He believes his old friend will lose, and lose heavily.

And here are some of the supporters of the man he believes will win outright in the first round, Mir Hussein Moussavi:

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A Mousavi poster suggesting Iran's attitude to the West will ease noticeably.


This is the man I met out in the apple farming foothills of the Elburz mountains, Nader Soltani, and his wife Mahin, his daughter Nilousar and his son Amir Ali.

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Amir Ali is five. Nilousar is seventeen, and very frustrated she isn't old enough to vote. The voting age for presidential elections has been raised from 16 to 18. This is their neighbourhood:

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Oh yes, one other thing:

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Sanctions?

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What sanctions?"

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