Voting will be held in Iran on the 1st for parliamentary elections that are held once every four years.
As the conflict with the West deepens over the situation in the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Ukraine, the focus is on whether hard-line conservatives who support the current administration's foreign and military policies will further expand their influence.
Iran's parliamentary elections, which mark the end of a four-year term, will be held on one day for 290 seats.
Iran has been accused by the West of providing drones to Russia, which continues its military invasion of Ukraine, but this has been denied and the conflict has deepened.
It also strongly opposes Israel, which backs the Islamic organization Hamas, and continues its military operations in the Gaza Strip, as well as the United States, which supports it.
The focus of this election is whether the hard-line conservative factions that support the foreign and military policies of the Raisi government, which is at odds with the West, and hold a majority in parliament, will further expand their influence.
Meanwhile, the agency that conducts the preliminary screening of candidacy announced that a quarter of those who received applications were disqualified.
Among those disqualified are politicians who criticized the government during demonstrations over how to wear headscarves in October, and some have called for a boycott, saying it was not a fair election.