Iran Begins First Election Campaign Since 2022 Mass Protests

People walk past a campaign poster for Hamid Abdolmaleki, a candidate for the March 1 parliamentary election, in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 22, 2024. This will be Iran's first election since the 2022 nationwide protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.

Candidates for Iran's parliament began campaigning Thursday in the country's first election since the bloody crackdown on the 2022 nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody.