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    <text>Iranian voters head to the polls to elect a successor to current President Hassan Rouhani. Hardline Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi is projected to be the winner. Reformists and dissidents are calling for a boycott after most of their candidates were initially rejected by the Guardian Council and one other, former Vice President Mohsen Mehralizadeh, dropped out, saying that there is no serious competition against the hardliners. </text>
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  <text>A Bell 212 helicopter crashes in Varzaqan, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, killing all the nine people on board, including President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. </text>
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