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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.
Iran has two candidates set to face off on Friday’s runoff presidential election. One is Saeed Jalili, 58, who served as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator under former President Mahmoud ...
The President of Iran is the highest official elected by direct, popular vote, although the President carries out the decrees, and answers to the Supreme Leader of Iran, who functions as the country's head of state. [1] [2] Chapter IX of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran sets forth
This was the first presidential runoff in the history of Iran. Before the run-off took place, it was compared to the 2002 French presidential election, where the splintering of the left-wing vote similarly led to a run-off between the moderate Jacques Chirac and the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen. The comparison was made because of the unexpected ...
The president runs the country day-to-day, but real power on issues such as Iran's nuclear programme and its foreign policy remain in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ...
Masoud Pezeshkian, Iranian presidential election candidate and lawmaker waves to the crowd after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran on Friday. - Hossein Beris/Middle East Images ...
The Iranian government extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's jail term of 12 years for "spreading propaganda". [5] Iran launches a missile attack within Pakistan's Balochistan Province, targeting what it describes are terrorist sites. Pakistan calls the action an "unprovoked violation" of its airspace resulting in the death of two children ...
Iran held a runoff presidential election on Friday that pitted a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker. Early results reported by Iran’s election authority on state ...