“This time there really was a boycott”: this is how exiled Iranian and women’s rights activist Mina Ahmadi commented on the elections in Iran at the Women’s Film Days in Tübingen at the beginning of March. The figures also show this: At around 41 per cent, the turnout in the first elections after the mass protests in autumn 2022 was lower than ever before—even though religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had declared voting a religious duty. Workers, students and women are “very sceptical of the regime”, said Ahmadi in Tübingen. Around 25 million of the approximately 61 million eligible voters… Read More
Low turnout in Iranian elections
