Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's election day in Iran, the first since it signed a deal to limit its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. Now, it was a fully open election. The government disqualified many pro-reform candidates from running. But so many people turned out to vote for a new parliament that the state extended hours at polling places multiple times. NPR's Peter Kenyon visited a few polling stations. He joins us now from the Iranian capital of Tehran. And, Peter, there was some question about whether reform voters would even turn out, right, after so many of their candidates had been disqualified. What have you seen?PETER KENYON, BYLINE: Well, I saw that they did, in fact, turn out. I saw a three-hour line at one place in north Tehran. At Jamaran in north Tehran, it was a festive scene. People were just really happy to be there. It's not easy, you know, to find reformers in large numbers in public in Tehran, not since 2009, when
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