The Iranian elections are due to be held on June 18, but the Iranian public is set to boycott en-masse because, as they’ve said multiple times, their votes have ...
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Reformist candidate drops out of Iran’s presidential election
One of two reformists approved to run in Iran's June 18 presidential election has withdrawn his candidacy. Iranian media report that Mohsen Mehralizadeh, a 64-year-old former vice president, withdrew ...
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Iran’s Rouhani years – From euphoria to disappointment
Promising greater openness at home and outreach abroad when he was elected in 2013, Iran’s outgoing moderate President Hassan Rouhani comfortably won a second term but leaves office as ...
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Khamenei is Iran’s most important voter and he wants more extremism
Elections have consequences, even in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nobody knows this better than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the country’s most powerful person and most important “voter...
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Front-runner for Iran presidency is hardline judge sanctioned by U.S.
Ebrahim Raisi's record of fierce loyalty to Iran's ruling clerics helps explain why the senior judge is a front-runner in Friday's presidential election, a contest the authorities have limited ...
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Iran’s incredible shrinking democracy
There’s a running joke among Iranians that the Iranian political system must be far more advanced than the one in the United States; months after the US election millions ...
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