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Iran’s former moderate President Hassan Rouhani says he has been disqualified from running for reelection to the country’s influential Assembly of Experts, calling it a move to limit the ...
Iran's hardline Guardian Council has banned former pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani from standing again in an election in March for the Assembly of Experts, which appoints and can dismiss the ...
Rouhani as a teenager. Hassan Rouhani was born Hassan Fereydoun on 12 November 1948 [8] in Sorkheh, near Semnan, in a religious Persian family. [29] His father, Haj Asadollah Fereydoun (died 2011), [30] had a spice shop in Sorkheh [31] and his mother lived in Semnan until her death in 2015 with her daughters and sons-in-law.
Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Rouhani were each elected president for two terms. The most recent president of Iran was Ebrahim Raisi . He succeeded Hassan Rouhani , who served eight years in office from 2013 to 2021.
Larijani was one of the two representatives of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ali Khamenei to the council, the other being Hassan Rouhani. [12] In his post as secretary, he effectively functioned as the top negotiator on issues of national security, including Iran's nuclear program .
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Persian Gulf, elsewhere in Mideast, amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran (all times local):
Despite the pressure coming from his supporters and women's rights activists to appoint female ministers, [10] [11] Rouhani did not name any woman as minister, however he appointed three women in his second administration, Masoumeh Ebtekar and Laya Joneydi as vice presidents and Shahindokht Molaverdi as his aide for citizenship rights.
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