Friday’s huge turnout of voters nationwide for electing candidates of their choice to the 11th 4-year term of the Majlis – parliament or legislature – was yet another proof of the Iranian people’s enthusiasm for pillars of the system of popular religious rule governing the country. As usual, the long queues at the ballot boxes in several cities and towns made election officials extend the deadline for casting of votes, from 18 to 23:30 hours.

It is now 41 years since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, and the millions, or more properly the multimillions (as the population now stands at over 83 million), have continued to be present on the scenes that determine the destiny, the identity, the power, the prestige, and the independence of the nation.

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