Iranian state media have been acknowledging for weeks that this Friday’s presidential election will have low turnout. Now, it seems as if groups as diverse as pensioners, university students, ...
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Ebrahim Raisi – Involved In
Ebrahim Raisi’s role in gas price hikes of November 2019
Two years after November 2019, Iran’s society has yet to forget the bloody crackdown on hundreds of thousands of protesters in around 200 cities across the country. At the ...
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Child-abuse plaintiff alleges Iran’s Raisi ignored prosecutor’s call for action
A plaintiff in a long-running child abuse scandal involving an award-winning Quran reciter has charged leading presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi of ignoring the case as chief justice.
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Iranians set to stay home as presidential polls open
Iran’s 13th presidential election will be held on Friday and any Iranian citizen over the age of 18 can vote. The first issue concerning this election is to understand ...
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Prominent activist in Iran fears her life after violent confrontations
June 17, 2021 – Iranian authorities should stop physically assaulting, harassing and threatening peaceful activists in Iran, including the prominent rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who told the Center for ...
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A look at the candidates in Iran’s presidential election
Iranians will vote Friday on who should be the country’s next president amid tensions with the West over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
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