actually saw he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics and international relations at the university of bradford. he says many people will stay away from the polls as a form of protest. i don't think what we see at the moment in the iran is about political apathy or indifference. what we see at the moment in iran is not apathy. i don't think people can't afford to be apathetic. i mean about indifference. i think people are extremely distribution with the political system and more importantly, there are disillusioned with the government because it seems that they have realized that despite actually what a lot of presidential candidates actually claim and promise in the end when you do look at your kind of petite uranium political system, there is a limit to what the president can do in the end entirely up to the supreme leader. i'm the elective organ like our gc connected took it off. and this time, instead of actually attending out being conduct the electro pulled, they have decided to use kind of the power in a very kind of seeing bullets manner use that was just shit by, by putting the electio

actually ensure he's senior lecturer in middle east politics and international relations at the university of bradford. thanks very much for being with us. so the expectation seems to be for fairly low turnout. do think that's going, that's going to be the case. you know, he's extremely difficult to do independent polls or surveys in iran because of the obvious political conditions. but when you look at actually any other indicate is that you can actually almost research. and he said up, we're going to have the record low, 10 out tomorrow. figured amy in the presidential election. i was looking at actually the global media coverage of the union election today. and i think that a lot of commentators i've been talking about obviously, but actually i don't think what we see at the moment in the wrong is about political apathy or indifference. what we see at the moment in the wrong as the report clearly suggest it is not apathy. i don't think people tend to fort to be apathetic. i mean, obviously he's about indifferent. i think people are extremely dissolution with the political system. and more important

options show he, he's a senior electra and middle eastern politics and international relations university of bradford to join us now from london. actually, i want to talk about the timing of all of this. us sanctions have been in place for some time now and with these new negotiations on the brink. why are we seeing these website seizures now? is this meant to be a message for, right. you see, i'm not entirely sure if you see a get a message because, you know, we kind of look at the issue from a couple of but we can look at that from kind of the ethical. i mean, we can talk about what freedom of expression is and how freedom of expression should be safe guard on. at the same time, we can talk about the fact that obviously that these a fine line between freedom of expression, promotion, or by any government, probably going to talk about the fact that we like the fact that you're not reaching the goal for freedom of expression. now on reminding you, you need your home to really ex, where they're at the same time. they are actually not on the mining freedom of expression year because the lady in governm