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Iran Presidential Election 2028

Friday, June 16, 2028 · 589 days away

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Event overview

Iran's 15th presidential election, due in mid-2028 under the four-year cycle following the July 2024 snap vote that elected Masoud Pezeshkian after Ebrahim Raisi's death.

Date: 2028-06-16
Country / jurisdiction: Iran
Region: Global
Category: Elections
Status: expected

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Source trail

Source trail for Iran Presidential Election 2028

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Primary source

moi.ir

Last reviewed

2026-04-30

Tracker status

expected

Date precision

Expected single-date signal; useful for monitoring, but not strong enough for irreversible plans.

Schema posture

Precise Event startDate schema is withheld so the page does not overstate an expected or windowed date.

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Primary citation

The current date signal points to moi.ir. The source URL is shown visibly on the page so readers can verify late changes instead of relying only on the timer.

Freshness and review

Source policy was reviewed on 2026-04-30. Live countdown values are render-time snapshots; editorial source fields update when the tracked event dataset changes.

Operational detail

The record does not carry a reliable public start time yet, so the page avoids implying a midnight or all-day start.

Weak-date handling

The page stays crawlable and useful, but confidence copy and schema posture are deliberately weaker than a confirmed event page.

What this countdown tracks

Iran's 15th presidential election, expected in mid-June 2028 on the four-year cycle following the 5 July 2024 snap vote that elected reformist Masoud Pezeshkian after the death of incumbent Ebrahim Raisi in a May 2024 helicopter crash. Roughly 61 million eligible voters select the head of government from a slate vetted by the Guardian Council, with a runoff one week later if no candidate clears 50 percent in the first round.

About this election

Under the 1979 Constitution as amended in 1989, the President is elected directly for a four-year term, renewable once consecutively. The Guardian Council, half appointed by the Supreme Leader and half by the head of the judiciary, vets all candidacies — a filter that has historically disqualified the bulk of registered aspirants. The Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, retains ultimate authority over foreign and security policy through the Supreme National Security Council.

Pezeshkian's July 2024 election — won 53.7 to 44.3 percent over hardline candidate Saeed Jalili in the runoff — followed the lowest first-round turnout (39.9 percent) in any Iranian presidential election since 1979. His government has navigated the post-October-2024 Israeli strikes, the JCPOA expiration in October 2025, and the question of nuclear-enrichment escalation under intense regional and US pressure.

Key issues

The 2028 campaign — assuming a regular cycle — will weigh Pezeshkian's record on US sanctions and the post-JCPOA diplomatic track, the regional aftermath of the Israel–Iran direct exchanges and the post-Assad Syrian transition, the durability of the rial and chronic 30-plus-percent inflation, the post-Mahsa Amini hijab-law debate and the broader social-freedom demands surfaced by the 2022 protest cycle, and the succession question that hangs over Khamenei's clerical office.

Past results

2024 (snap): Masoud Pezeshkian 53.7% defeated Saeed Jalili 44.3% in the second round on 5 July; first round 28 June saw turnout of just 39.9%.
2021: Ebrahim Raisi 62.9% — turnout 48.8%, the lowest in Iranian presidential history at that point.
2017: Hassan Rouhani 57.1% defeated Ebrahim Raisi 38.3%.
2013: Hassan Rouhani 50.7% — single-round win.
2009: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 62.6% in the result that triggered the Green Movement protests.

How to follow

The Interior Ministry administers the election and publishes results via moi.ir; IRNA, Press TV and Tasnim provide official Persian and English coverage. International viewers should cross-reference BBC Persian, Iran International, Radio Farda and Reuters Tehran. Polling stations open 08:00 to typically extended late-night closes (Tehran time, GMT+3:30).

Iran's 2028 vote sits in the Middle East / Asia electoral cluster with the Turkey presidential election, Egypt House of Representatives election and Israel Knesset election. For comparable presidential cycles see the South Korea presidential election.

FAQ

When is the Iran 2028 election? Expected mid-June 2028 (likely 16 or 23 June 2028) on the four-year cycle from Pezeshkian's July 2024 snap win. Who is running? Subject to Guardian Council vetting; reformist, principlist and hardline factions traditionally field candidates. Pezeshkian is constitutionally eligible for a second term. Why does this election matter globally? Iran is a key oil producer, a regional power across the Middle East, and the focal state of the nuclear non-proliferation question after the JCPOA's October 2025 expiration. Who really runs Iran? The President heads the executive branch but the Supreme Leader retains final authority over foreign, security and nuclear policy through the SNSC and the IRGC.

Date confidence

Expected date

Iran Presidential Election 2028 has an expected date signal, but the source has not locked every detail. Treat the countdown as a monitoring aid and verify the linked source before making time-sensitive plans.

Source

https://www.moi.ir/

Source host: moi.ir
Date precision: Expected single-date signal; verify before acting
Schema posture: Precise Event startDate withheld because the record is expected or windowed
Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger

Structured data posture

This page does not emit a precise Event startDate because the tracked record is expected or windowed. The countdown stays useful for monitoring, while schema avoids making a stronger claim than the source supports.

Countdown evidence

Retention class

Expected-date monitoring countdown

Evidence score

4/10 record signals

City-page readiness

Held to date-first

Evidence score4/10 signals present: primary source URL; tracked date; place context; related event cluster
Date and schemaSchema-limited watchlist date: Expected single-date signal; useful for monitoring, but not strong enough for irreversible plans. Precise Event startDate schema is withheld so the page does not overstate an expected or windowed date.
Local-time readinessDate-first only: The record is not used as a city-local event page until it has a reliable time, timezone, and non-windowed date.
Record completeness1 concrete fields: country Iran
Weak-field watchlist4 fields to improve: verified public start time; venue; manual official-source note; historical sequence
Source freshnessmoi.ir; reviewed 2026-04-30: Related crawl path: Pentecost 2028, Lilo & Stitch 2, Karnataka Assembly Election 2028, Turkey Presidential Election 2028.

Planning notes

How to use this Iran Presidential Election 2028 countdown

Countdown pages are useful when they are honest about what is known, what is merely expected, and what still needs checking. This page keeps the live timer separate from the source confidence and structured-data posture.

Date confidence

This record uses an expected single-date signal for Friday, June 16, 2028; verify moi.ir before committing travel, spend, publication, or launch planning. The page keeps Event structured data cautious because the date is expected or windowed.

What could change

Watch for date shifts, venue or access updates, broadcast windows, registration rules, and source corrections. The current precision is: Expected single-date signal; useful for monitoring, but not strong enough for irreversible plans..

Local-time usefulness

No reliable source start time is attached yet, so the page stays date-first and avoids implying a midnight start. 589 days remain at render time.

Category context

Iran Presidential Election 2028 sits in Elections with country Iran. Related countdown links should help users compare similar events, not create unverified event-city pages.

Catalog-specific details

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Series and expectation notes

No series history, end date, or what-to-expect field is attached.

Priority note

This page is kept specific through source confidence, category, region, date precision, and update notes rather than generic countdown filler.

Verification trail

source URL https://www.moi.ir/. trust checks: Source host: moi.ir, Date precision: Expected single-date signal; verify before acting, Schema posture: Precise Event startDate withheld because the record is expected or windowed, and Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger. no manual editorial context is attached yet.

Record completeness

present fields: country Iran. missing or weak fields: verified public start time, venue, manual official-source note, and historical sequence

Related crawl path

Nearby retained events: Pentecost 2028, Lilo & Stitch 2, Karnataka Assembly Election 2028, Turkey Presidential Election 2028, and Australia 2028 Federal Election. These links should support topical discovery without creating unverified event-city pages.

Review boundary: this page tracks the public date signal, source link, category, region, and calendar posture. It does not replace official ticketing, exchange, broadcaster, organizer, court, regulator, or government notices.

Source reviewed Apr 30, 2026. The countdown record is intentionally labeled as scheduled or expected; use the source link and any range notes before treating the date as final.

Live values rendered at Nov 5, 7:07 PM UTC.

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