News Source: Scoop
| 17 hours ago
May 23, 2013 THE election landscape in Iran is becoming increasingly clear. According to state-run Press TV, a whopping 686 candidates registered to run in the presidential poll...Most are seen as loyalists to Khamenei, while those rejected included
News Source: Foreign Affairs
| 24 hours ago
An Iranian woman after voting in the 2009 presidential election (Courtesy Reuters) The paradoxical nature of politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been on full display in this short campaign season for the presidency. As plenty of commentators
News Source: Inter Press Service
| 1 day ago
IPS Articles In his first statement after declaring his candidacy, Rafsanjani had made clear that returning the country towards moderation and away from the extremism that had taken hold in both domestic and foreign policy was his objective. His
News Source: United Press International
| 1 day ago
The declining reputation of Iran and its related economic problems are the true enemies of the Islamic republic, former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani said. The 12-member Guardian Council winnowed the list of more than 600 would-be presidential
News Source: BBC
| 1 day ago
Whoever wins the polls will replace incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is constitutionally barred form seeking re-election...Saeed Jalili Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, is running for president for the first time. He is said
News Source: CNN
| 1 day ago
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will challenge the disqualification of his top aide from next month's presidential election, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Wednesday. Only eight candidates have been approved to run for office from more than
News Source: DAWN
| 2 days ago
Iran's moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been barred from standing in next month's presidential election, along with a controversial aide of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Rafsanjani, who served
News Source: The Christian Science Monitor
| 2 days ago
The forever revolutionary is fiercely loyal to hardliner Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Istanbul Iran's smiling but immovable top nuclear negotiator, a revolutionary and wounded war veteran with a decades-old suspicion of the United States, has become a