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Early returns show reformist Pezeshkian leading Iran runoff vote: interior ministry

July 6, 2024 admin

Electoral staff count ballots at a polling station after voting ended in Iran’s run-off presidential election between Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, in Tehran, Iran July 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran’s reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian was leading in runoff presidential elections against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, according to early results released on July 6…

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Iran’s presidential contenders face hurdle of voter apathy

July 2, 2024 admin

Presidential candidates Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili attend an election debate at a television studio in Tehran, on July 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS A zealous anti-Westerner and the low-key moderate hoping to become Iran’s next president could struggle to mobilise millions of supporters on July 5’s run-off election amid voter apathy about a…

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Iran holds presidential vote with limited choices

June 28, 2024 admin

A woman walks near a banner of presidential candidate Saeed Jalili displayed on a street in Tehran, Iran on June 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iranians will vote for a new president on June 28 following Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash, choosing from a tightly controlled group of four candidates loyal to…

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Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election

June 2, 2024 admin

Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the media as he leaves at the conclusion of a press briefing beside portraits of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, top right, and the late President Ebrahim Raisi after registering his name as a candidate for the June 28 presidential election at the Interior Ministry, in…

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Iran Presidential Election: After Raisi’s funeral, focus turns to vote for successor

May 28, 2024 admin

After Iran mourned president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a recent helicopter crash, the nation’s focus turns to an election next month for his successor, with the conservative camp seeking a loyalist to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The lead-up to the early vote on June 28 has opened up the field to a broad…

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Iran conservatives secure bulk of seats in elections: media

March 3, 2024 admin

Iranian women fill out their ballots before casting their vote, during elections to select members of parliament and a key clerical body, in Tehran on March 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Iranian conservatives secured the bulk of seats in elections for a key clerical body and the national legislature, local media reported, estimating a…

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Hard-liners are leading in Iran’s parliamentary election which may have witnessed record-low turnout

March 2, 2024 admin

Iranians vote during the parliamentary election at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, March 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A day after parliamentary election concluded in Iran, hard-liners are leading in initial vote counting in the capital of Tehran, state media. State-run IRNA news agency and state TV said 1,960 from 5,000 ballots in…

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