Iranian voters divided on whether elections will address pressing economic concerns

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Iran will hold its presidential election on Friday to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month. Candidates have promised to revive the economy. But voters see little prospect of relief from a cost of living crisis without an end to international sanctions.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr has spoken to some of them in the capital Tehran.

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan is a professor of Economics at Philipps University of Marburg. He says that corruption is also responsible for the ecomonic crisis in Iran.