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Raisi's death in a helicopter crash in May 2024 cut short his potential candidacy. [9] [10] In November 2024 government leaker Abbas Palizdar said Khamenei's son has quit seminary to succeed his father. [11] In November 2024 it was revealed that 3 people have been nominated to replace Khamenei. [12]
The council’s decision represents the starting gun for a shortened, two-week campaign to replace Raisi, a hard-line protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei once floated as a possible ...
Allowing Mojtaba to replace his father may, however, spur theories that Raisi’s death was not accidental, Sadjadpour said. Raisi’s rivals are also likely to try to fill the vacuum he leaves ...
Iran fires the starting gun this week on an election to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, whose death in a helicopter crash could complicate efforts by the authorities to manage a task of even ...
The Latest | Trump and Biden squared off for the first time in the 2024 election season; Iranians vote to replace president killed in a helicopter crash, but apathy remains high; Iran opens voting in an election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash; More Political News Headlines
Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 [1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May. [2]Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf won 14% and Mostafa Pourmohammadi won less than 1% of the vote.
Former President Ebrahim Raisi, who was also a member of the Assembly of Experts, was expected to run for re-election in Tehran. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He instead chose to run in a rural constituency of South Khorasan province in which around 200,000 votes are usually required to win, and in which he is the only candidate for the seat, a situation ...
The Iranian election committee has approved a slate of mostly hardline candidates to run in the presidential election on June 28, following the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi ...