Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran
June 24 2005

Followers of religious minorities massively taking part in polls
Tehran, June 24, IRNA

9th Presidential Election-Armenian Community
A large number of Iranians from Armenian community from east and
northeast of Tehran attended in “Ershad Hosseinyeh” polling station
at noon and cast their votes.

One of the Tehrani armenian Muni Sarkisyan said after casting his
vote “We are practicing our legal and natural rights as an Iranian
citizen”.

He said, “All Iranians from different ethnics or religions have the
right to participate in the election, so we, Armenians as the biggest
religious minority in the country, have come to the polling stations
to elect the best person to manage the country.

According to the same report, other religious minorities like
Zoroastrians, Jews, Assyrians and Chaldeans also attended in the same
place to elect president.