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Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri held separate telephone conversations with Russian and Saudi Foreign Ministers, Sergey Lavrov and Faisal bin Farhan, to discuss regional developments including Israel's threats against Lebanon.
The Iranian interior ministry announced no straight winner emerged from the ballot boxes in the first round of presidential polls held on Friday, adding the country will hold an election runoff next Friday.
Counting votes in Iran’s presidential election started at midnight right after polls closed on Friday, with the interior ministry gradually releasing reports as the initial results are trickling in from across the country.
Canada was the only country that barred Iranian expatriates from voting in the snap presidential elections held on Friday, an Iranian diplomat complained.
Iranian and international media have been flashing images of prominent political figures who have gone to the polls to cast their ballots across Iran on Friday in the snap presidential election and encourage others to vote in the highly dichotomized voting.
Polls opened across Iran at 08:00 am local time (04:30 GMT) on Friday to choose a successor to the late President Ebrahim Raisi who lost his life in a helicopter crash last month.
The commemoration ceremony for the 40th day of martyrdom of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the late Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the martyrs of service, was held this Thursday morning.
The level of water in Late Urmia in northwestern Iran has significantly come up following the recent rainfalls, reaching the highest point in six months.
Iran’s minister of energy says the country has experienced a leap in electricity production, citing a recently released report by Energy Institute (EI) on the surge in energy production in different countries.
With one of the candidates dropping out of the presidential election race in Iran so far, the five remaining candidates should stop their campaign for the polls to be held on Friday.
Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the Iranian people will not tie their livelihoods to the 2015 nuclear deal known as JCPOA this time around when they elect their new president.
The Iranian Parliament’s Research Center released on Wednesday the results of its latest opinion poll on the country’s upcoming presidential election, putting reformist candidate Massoud Pezeshkian in the lead among the six hopefuls with 23.5 percent of the votes.
Iranian officials say Saudi Arabia has turned down a request by Iran to allow Iranian Hajj pilgrims to cast their votes in the snap presidential polls on Friday.
People in Iran marked Eid al-Ghadir on Tuesday night with festive rallies and celebrations across the country to mark the appointment of the first Shia Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib, as the successor to Islam’s revered Prophet Mohammad.
The six presidential contenders who are running for office in the Friday presidential snap elections sparred in the fifth and final debate aired by the state broadcaster on Tuesday day.
Iran's permanent envoy at the United Nations has reiterated the country’s long-standing take that no better alternative exists to the 2015 nuclear agreement with the West, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iranians are celebrating Eid al-Ghadir, which marks the day when Prophet Mohammad appointed the first Shia Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib, as his successor and the leader of Muslims some 14 centuries ago.
Iran’s only reformist presidential hopeful Massoud Pezeshkian says the piles of problems in the country can be solved in case people contribute to running the country’s affairs.
