Iran hardliners join social media free-for-all before vote


  • World
  • Wednesday, 17 May 2017

An Iranian woman uses her mobile phone as she rests at a park in Tehran, Iran, May 16, 2017. REUTERS/TIMA

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The first picture shows a crowd of thousands packed into a central square in the city of Isfahan this week for a speech by hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the top challenger to President Hassan Rouhani in Friday's Iranian presidential election.

Immediately below is another picture of the same square, with a smaller crowd who had come out the previous day to see Rouhani, with red arrows pointing out the empty areas.

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