Who will actually win the vote is unpredictable, but not because Iran is democratic. Ayatollah Khamenei, who is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, oversees the agencies that will run the election: the Guardian Council and the Ministry of Interior, which supervise the electoral process, and the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), which unofficially control the ballot-boxes and the vote-counting process.
预测谁的确将会赢得选举是不可能的，但这不是因为伊朗是个民主国家。担任军事力量总司令的阿亚图拉·哈梅内伊同时还监督着举行选举的机构：监护委员会和内政部 （它们监督选举的程序），还有“巴西吉”民兵部队和革命卫队（IRGC）(它们非官方地控制着票箱和计票程序)。