According to Iran’s Interior Ministry, conservatives will dominate the country’s new parliament following an election marked by the lowest voter turnout in decades.

Only about 43% of eligible voters actually went to the polls.

CGTN’s Jack Barton reports from Tehran.

To discuss the impact of the election:

• Pieter Cleppe heads the Brussels office for the British policy center Open Europe.
• Ali Alfoneh is a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC.
• Mark Fitzpatrick served in the U.S. Foreign Service for more than two decades and is currently an associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
• Ghanbar Naderi is an Iranian journalist and political commentator.

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Iran said voter turnout in last week's parliamentary elections dipped below 50 percent, the lowest since the country's 1979 revolution that ushered in a Shiite clerical government to power. https://t.co/P4ZzTmjb7D

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