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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Iran’s presidential election is heading to a second round after none of the four candidates managed to secure more than 50% in Friday’s vote.
Iranian law requires that a winner gets more than 50% of all votes cast. If that doesn’t happen, the race’s top two candidates will advance to a runoff a week later. There’s been only one runoff presidential election in Iran’s history: in 2005, when hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bested former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran held a runoff presidential election on Friday that pitted a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker after the first round of voting saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic's history.
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 ...