Iran election: All you need to know as nation chooses its next president |

Iran is set to choose a new president in a contest that many expect to be won by a judge fiercely loyal to the religious establishment.

Here is everything you need to know about the contest.

Who is the current president?

President Hassan Rouhani has been in power since 2013 and has come to the end of his two terms in office.

A centrist, he was a key figure in the 2015 negotiation of a nuclear deal with the West – he has subsequently…