Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf quit the Iranian presidential race, backing instead hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi in Friday's vote. Ghalibaf, a former Revolutionary Guards commander and police …
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned that hardliners in the country will make the sanctions come back on Iran if his conservative rivals win the upcoming presidential election. Rouhani said that he was not into …
Iran’s Guardian Council has dismissed media reports on the date of the presidential elections in 2017. Accoring to the council's message, the spokesman of the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, did …
Iran's new parliament will have more women than clerics when its members are sworn in this month, a first in the Islamic republic and a sign of the country's evolving politics. Official results Saturday showed that reformist and …
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed hope that the country's newly elected parliament will be in coordination with the government to fulfil the president's electoral promises, Trend reports. …
Reformist and moderate politicians allied with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani won most seats in second-round parliamentary elections, the Interior Ministry of Iran reports. According to recent reports, the reformists won 38 …
In the runoff elections held on Friday to determine the makeup of Iran’s 10th parliament, 34 Reformists, 22 Principalists, 1 on both lists and 11 Independent candidates secured a seat in the 290-member …
The second round of the parliamentary elections started today in Iran. The citizens of the Islamic Republic started voting to elect 68 out of 290 members of the Parliament, which failed to get 25% of votes cast in the first round of the …
Today a day of silence has been announced in Iran on the eve of the second round of the elections to the Majlis (parliament). All campaigning was stopped in the country on April 28th in accordance with the electoral law. In the second …
Scores of candidates have begun campaigning for runoff parliamentary elections scheduled for April 29. The 136 candidates are running for 68 seats in Iran’s 290-seat parliament, for constituencies in which no candidate achieved a …
The counting of votes at the elections to the Majlis and the Assembly of Experts finished in Iran. According to Interior Ministry of Iran, reformers received at least 85 seats in the Majlis, moderates received 73 seats, conservatives …
The Iranian authorities have denied issuing visas to three Republican congressmen who planned to attend the parliamentary elections as observers, Washington Free Beacon reports. "Iran has refused to issue travel documents to three …
According to the preliminary results of the elections to the Majlis and the Assembly of Experts, the Conservatives received 106 seats in the 290-seat parliament. But it is noted, that they can lose the majority due to the large success …
Iran's development shouldn't take place at the expense of independence and national dignity of the republic, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an address to the Iranian people in connection with the …
Two terrorist attacks were prevented on the eve of the parliamentary elections in Iran, the Minister for Intelligence Affairs of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Mahmoud Alavi stated. "Iranian security and …
The elections to the parliament (Majlis) and the Council of Experts finished in Iran today. According to the preliminary results, the current president of Iran Hassan Rouhani and the former president Ali Akbar Hashemi …
A second round of elections to the parliament (Majlis) of the country will be held in some cities and towns of Iran at the end of April, the Minister of Interior Affairs, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, reported today. …
At the elections to the parliament (Majlis) and the Assembly of Experts of Iran, held yesterday, about 58% of voters voted, or 32 million people. According to the representative of the Iranian Ministry of Internal Affairs, a more …
The high voter turnout has forced the Interior Ministry of Iran to prolong the voting at today's elections to the Majlis and the Council of Experts once again. "The voting was extended until 10:00 pm local time (9:30 pm …
The Iranian Interior Ministry has announced about the extension of today's elections to the country to the Majlis and the Council of Experts. The reason for such a decision is the extremely high voter turnout. In …
