A woman arrives to vote at a polling station polling station in Iran's capital Tehran on June 18, 2021, during the 2021 presidential election. ( Photo: Atta Kenare / AFP )
Customers look at rugs at a hand crafts store at Iran Mall shopping center in Tehran, June 9, 2021. Iranians point to the economy as the major issue facing it ahead of its June 18 presidential election. (Photo: Vahid Salemi/AP)
Female supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi hold up his posters during a campaign rally in Eslamshahr, about 25 km south of Tehran, June 6, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
President Masoud Barzani (Right), leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party with Nasar al-Rubaye, head of the political body of the Sadrist movement, June 1, 2021. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Opposition leader and Chairman of Israel's Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a weekly party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 24, 2021. (Photo: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP
Syrians wave national flags and carry a large portrait of their president as they celebrate in the streets of the capital Damascus, May 27, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
Residents of the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishlo in northeast Syria cast their votes in the Syrian presidential elections, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Akram Salih/Kurdistan 24)
A Syrian voter shows a ballot with the pictures of the three candidates in Syria’s presidential election, including President Bashar al-Assad (right), before casting her vote in Damascus on May 26, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
In this May 12, 2014 file photo, campaign posters for the upcoming presidential election adorn a street in Damascus, Syria. The banner reads, “Together with Bashar Assad.” (Photo: AP/File)
Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran’s judiciary, waves to media as he registers his candidacy for the June 18 presidential elections, May 15, 2021. (Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
A man rides a bicycle past election campaign billboards depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a candidate for the upcoming presidential vote, in Damascus on May 23, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
