Iranian women queue in a polling station to vote for the presidential and municipal councils elections, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iran's supreme leader delivered a salty rebuke to the U.S. Friday as Iranians lined up to vote in a presidential election that has suddenly become a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide: hard-liners looking to cement their control and re-energized reformists backing the lone moderate. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian women queue in a polling station to vote for the presidential and municipal councils elections, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iran's supreme leader delivered a salty rebuke to the U.S. Friday as Iranians lined up to vote in a presidential election that has suddenly become a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide: hard-liners looking to cement their control and re-energized reformists backing the lone moderate. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot in the presidential election without publicly endorsing a candidate, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. On Friday, Khamenei delivered a salty rebuke to U.S. questions over the openness of the presidential contest , telling Washington "the hell with you" after casting his ballot in a race widely criticized in the West as pre-rigged in favor of Tehran's ruling system. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
Iranian women attend a polling station to vote for the presidential and municipal councils elections in downtown Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian citizens wait to get ballots for the Iranian presidential election at a polling station inside the Sadr Mosque in the Kazimiyah district of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iranian voters appeared to heed calls to cast ballots Friday in a presidential election that has suddenly become a showdown across Iran's political divide: Hard-liners looking to cement their control and re-energized reformists backing the lone moderate left in the race. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
Iranian nationals queue to vote in the Iran presidential election at the Iranian Consulate in London, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iran holds presidential elections on Friday, June 14, to choose a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run for a third consecutive term in office. Six candidates remain in the race, a moderate, four conservatives and a hard-liner. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran's Interior Ministry says voting in the country's presidential election has ended across the country.
Iranians had waited on line for hours in wilting heat at some polling stations in downtown Tehran and other cities, casting ballots across the vast country from desert outposts to Gulf seaports and nomad pastures. Voting was extended by five hours to meet demand, but also as possible political stagecraft to showcase the participation.
The turnout suggested liberals and others abandoned a planned boycott as the election evolved into a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide.
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