State-controlled television gave reasonably even-handed campaign coverage and screened slick, Hollywoodised propaganda slots produced by some of the candidates (though not the strait-laced Mr Ahmadi-Nejad).
However, he will face not Mr Moin, who limped home in fifth place, but Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a hardline religious conservative and mayor of the capital, Tehran, who came from nowhere to achieve second place.