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Iran Elections

Iranian Cleric: Woman Can't Be President In Iran

AP | Posted 05.17.2013 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, ef...

PHOTOS: Who Will Be The Next President Of Iran?

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.04.2013 | World

On June 14, Iranians will flock to the polls to elect a new president to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. While the field of candidates is large and varie...

Will This Be Iran's Next President?

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 04.11.2013 | World

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's former nuclear negotiator, now a candidate in Iran's presidential election, pledged Thursday to improve rocky relations with th...

Iran's Upcoming Election Expected To Solidify Khamenei's Power

Reuters | Posted 05.07.2013 | World

By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT, March 6 (Reuters) - The presidential campaign season in Iran this year started with a warning. During a...

Iran's Supreme Leader Calls Ahmadinejad 'Bad, Wrong, Inappropriate'

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 02.17.2013 | World

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran's supreme leader is supposed to be many things in the eyes of his followers: Spiritual mentor, protector of the Is...

Ahmadinejad As Mahmoud-y As Ever

AP | NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 02.10.2013 | World

TEHRAN, Iran -- There was nothing essentially new in the message to Washington from Iran's president on Sunday: Repeating last week's statement by the...

Supreme Leader To Iranians: Don't Question Election Results

AP | Posted 01.08.2013 | World

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader says that Iranians should not serve the country's enemies by questioning the fairness of upcoming presidential e...

Iran Sets The Date

Reuters | Posted 11.07.2012 | World

DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Iran will hold presidential elections on June 14 next year, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, the first such vote sinc...

Election Humiliation For Ahmadinejad

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 07.05.2012 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's support in Iran's parliament crumbled as final results released Saturday showed conservative riva...

Iran's Parliamentary Vote: The Beginning of the End of Ahmadinejad

Angie Ahmadi | Posted 05.12.2012 | World
Angie Ahmadi

Last Friday, Iran held its first elections since the controversial 2009 presidential contest, which led to the near-elimination of pro-reform political forces in the Islamic Republic. For this reason, the parliamentary vote should be viewed as an unrepresentative sham -- nothing more than a selection process amongst the ruling conservative elite.

"Dear Ahmadinejad": Revisiting Petr Lom's Letters to the President

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 05.06.2012 | Home
E. Nina Rothe

Letters to the President turned out to be a film which undeniably proved that there are as many opinions as there are people in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Netanyahu and the Iran War Option

Ali Fatemi | Posted 05.04.2012 | World
Ali Fatemi

A closer examination of Mr. Netanyahu's record and his philosophical approach to the problems of Middle East leads us to conclude that the talk of war is more than rhetoric and, indeed, indicative of his intent.

Ahmadinejad Rivals Rack Up Parliamentary Wins

AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.03.2012 | World

TEHRAN, Iran -- Conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared on course Saturday to gain firm control of parliament after elections th...

Conservative Factions Face Off In Iranian Elections

AP | BY NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.02.2012 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — The younger sister of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday failed to win a parliamentary seat in Ahmadinejad's hometown as the ...

Hardliners Face Off In Vote

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012 | World

By Parisa Hafezi and Zahra Hosseinian TEHRAN, March 2 (Reuters) - Iranians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election expected to re...

Everything You Need To Know On Iran's Upcoming Elections

AP/Reuters/The Huffington Post | NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.01.2012 | World

TEHRAN, Iran -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's name will be nowhere on Friday's ballots. But the voting for parliament seats will be very much about ...

A Feather in the Hawks' Cap: Iran's March Parliamentary Elections

Madison Schramm | Posted 04.04.2012 | World
Madison Schramm

By silencing reformist candidates, Tehran's leadership is doing the country a disservice. The biggest threat to Iranian sovereignty isn't domestic dissent, but government repression.

Iran Mounts Harsh New Web Crackdown

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 01.06.2012 | World

Iran is mounting new clampdowns on Internet expression, including rules that will impose layers of surveillance in the country's popular Internet cafe...

Power Struggles Rage As Iran Prepares For Elections

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 10.16.2011 | World

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's internal power struggles are shifting into election mode with hard-line political forces banding together t...

Ahmadinejad Slams Allies' Arrest As 'Politically Motivated'

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 08.29.2011 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's embattled president fired back Wednesday after a wave of arrests against his allies, claiming it's part of a "politically ...

Dr. Hossein Ziai Says Iran May See Another Revolution

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Dr. Hossein Ziai is the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar chair at UCLA where he is also a tenured full professor of Islamic and Iranian studies and the d...

Another Hunger Strike? Is Anyone Listening to The Iranians?

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Betwa Sharma

A few years after the revolution, Monel fled the country after being beaten in a rally to protest the new regime's imposition of conservative clothing that forced women to don chadors.

Iran Torture Trials Begin

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

TEHRAN, Iran — The trial in Iran opened Tuesday for 12 suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters tortured in priso...

Iran at a Crossroads

Patrick Disney | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Patrick Disney

Iran-watchers are struggling with the cognitive dissonance of it all: how can you still oppose war but support the dismantling of the Islamic theocracy?

Sarah Palin's Jihad

Malou Innocent | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Malou Innocent

Palin's comment about Iran reflects an ongoing effort by conservatives to cast Obama as soft on terrorism, and mirrors much of the media coverage following the foiled Christmas Day attack.