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Iran President presents cabinet to parliament for approval

August 11, 2024 admin

The President presented the names of the new 19-member cabinet including one woman. File | Photo Credit: AP Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian presented his Cabinet to parliament on Sunday (August 11, 2024), notably including a woman and a Western-friendly diplomat as the country’s Foreign Minister. Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced the names of the…

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Iran’s Khamenei formally grants Masoud Pezeshkian presidential powers

July 28, 2024 admin

Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, left, sits next to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. File | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his official endorsement to reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic’s ninth president on July 28, following elections earlier this month. In a message read by the director of Mr….

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As Pezeshkian begins new term, odds are stacked against him

July 6, 2024 admin

This undated handout image, released by the office of the Iranian President on July 6, 2024, shows the reformist Masoud Pezeshkian who became the ninth president of Iran with 16,384,403 votes. | Photo Credit: Office of the Iranian President via Getty Images Iranians have picked reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic’s next President in…

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Iran seesawing vote results put race between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili

June 29, 2024 admin

Hard-line former Iranian senior nuclear negotiator and candidate for the presidential election Saeed Jalili casts his ballot in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, on June 28, 2024. Iranians are voting in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. | Photo Credit: AP Early, seesawing results released Saturday in Iran’s presidential…

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Spotlight on sanctions in Iran presidential campaign

June 25, 2024 admin

Massoud Pezeshkian. | Photo Credit: AFP Iranians broadly deplore Western sanctions that have battered the economy, but the country’s six presidential candidates offer differing solutions — assuming the winner gets a say on foreign policy. With the June 28 snap election fast approaching, debates between the candidates vying for Iran’s second-highest office have featured a…

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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’s acting President addresses new Parliament after helicopter crash killing President, others

May 27, 2024 admin

Iran’s acting President Mohammad Mokhber addresses during the opening ceremony of a new parliament term, in Tehran, Iran, on May 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s acting President Mohammad Mokhber addressed the country’s new parliament on May 27 in his first public speech since last week’s helicopter crash that killed his predecessor and seven…

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How will Iran President’s death impact the region? | Explained

May 25, 2024 admin

The story so far: The death of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s President, and eight others, including Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian, in a helicopter crash on May 19, has sent shockwaves across the region. The timing of the accident was significant. Tensions remain high in West Asia, particularly after Iran launched its first direct attack on Israel…

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Iran prepares to bury late President, Foreign Minister and others killed in helicopter crash

May 23, 2024 admin

Mourners attend the funeral of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran on May 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Iran on May 23 prepared to inter its late President at the holiest site for Shiite Muslims in the Islamic Republic, a final sign of respect for a protege of Iran’s supreme leader killed in a…

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Iran’s supreme leader presides over funeral for president and others killed in helicopter crash

May 22, 2024 admin

File picture of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s supreme leader presided over a funeral Wednesday for the country’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held the service at Tehran University, the caskets of the dead draped in Iranian flags with their…

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