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Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar Some in Iran call him the “eternal candidate”. Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaee, now 71, ran for President of Iran three times — 2009, 2013 and 2021. The former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has always remained an institutional insider and an ideologically committed apparatchik of the Islamic Republic,…
Early projections of the results are expected by Saturday morning and official results by Sunday. Tehran: Polls in Iran opened on Friday for a presidential election following the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month. Around 61 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the polls where reformist Masoud Pezeshkian,…
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A woman walks past a wall bearing electoral campaign posters, ahead of the upcoming elections, in Tehran on February 24, 2024. File | Photo Credit: AFP With just a week remaining before a Presidential election, Iranians are divided over whether voting will address pressing economic issues and mandatory hijab laws. Iranians head to the polls…
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