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Would get in trouble. there's a lot of fear in the country and a lot of courage. people are speaking out when they can. i'm sure you had people who even when they were aware, they still wanted to talk to you and they still wanted to tell the passionate stories of go ahead, bring it on, because i want to talk. >> which was a bit of a surprise again, and maybe that will be reflected in the election ruls. we don't know who will win or if we'll have a winner in what may be the first round, but we saw at least in the polling stations i was able to go to, an increase in turnout through the day. ligh...

Runoff, a candidate would have to have 50% plus one, one individual vote to actually win and not have this go to a runout. as i said, everybody we spoke to thinks it will go to a run off. we'll get the results in the next 24 hours or so. joining me now is the host of npr's "morning edition." here it's really early. i guess you're used to these hours. we saw. we saw here in tehran, enthusiasm, lines, the mayor of tehran was very popular here. what did you see at the polls? >> i was interested that some people seemed to make up their minds at the last minute to show up. you mentioned some people...

And a lot of the internet sets, you get redirected, but it's kind of a little more complicated than that. we have a special report out front on that. plus, the luxury goods, all of them in a very fancy neighborhood where, well, if you're linked in with the powerful revolutionary guard, you might have access to those kind of brands and sanctions haven't seemed to heard those people, and who are those powerful revolutionary guard, the ones who control the economy so overwhelmingly and who are so powerful and yet still so secretive? we'll talk about that. all that coming up "outfront" live from t...

Name, surname, date of birth. national code. the name of the city, the name of father, and these things. okay? >> and here is where i fill out for president. >> yes? >> chara is in charge of this polling station and insists it's practically impossible for the government to know who a voter picked. >> we can't find this person is for this person. >> you can't find that out? >> we can't find that out. >> the majority of votes at this station seem to be for the mayor of tehran. they came home from kuwait to vote for them. can you tell me who you decided to vote for? >> mr. call abod? >> he's a gr...

Actually allows the top buyers of iranian oil to still do business with the united states? the state department just recently formally signs a piece of paper. here's an exemption, you may shake your head and say how does that make sense? you may shake your head more when you hear this. chinese imports of iranian oil are up 66% in the month of may alone. chinese imports, china's the pretty stunning statistic, even though overall some of the imports, of course, have been dropping dramatically. what about regular people? are the sanctions working? here's what we saw. congested, busy tehran is pac...