Voting kicks off for Iran presidential runoff election
Polling stations opened across Iran at 08:00 am local time (04:30 GMT) on Friday for the second round of presidential snap elections in thecountry.
Countdown beings for presidential election runoff in Iran as the candidates vying for the office stopped their campaigns at 8 am on Thursday local time.
Iran’s interior minister says preparations are in place for a “great election” on Friday to elect a successor to the late president Ebrahim Raisi, calling on the nation to show strong participation.
The two top presidential candidates who found their ways to the runoff vote in Iran’s elections, faced off in a televised debate on Monday night on foreign policy, cultural, and social issues.
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.
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.
Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, a heavyweight supporter of reformist presidential candidate Massoud Pezeshkian, has made a fiery speech in the central Iranian city of Kashan against the rival principlist camp.
Spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nasser Kanaani strongly deplored the political, unconventional and unwise act of the Canadian government in declaring the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a "terror entity".
Muslims across the world and Iran are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, which commemorates the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Iran has urged the United Nations to ratchet up pressure on Israel to make it abide by the rulings issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip which has so far killed 37,000 people.
Iran’s Guardian Council approved six of the 80 presidential hopefuls on Sunday to run for president in the upcoming snap elections scheduled to be held later this month, eliciting reactions from some of the turned-down candidates.
Iran's Interior Ministry has announced the list of finally approved candidates for the upcoming presidential elections, with former Parliament Speaker and veteran politician Ali Larijani and former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disqualified.
The spokesman of Iran’s Guardian Council says the vetting process for the candidates of the upcoming presidential elections is underway and the final results are likely due on Monday.
Tehran, Moscow and Beijing have issued a statement demanding the West refrain from creating tensions amid a longstanding standoff and make bold steps to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which is in terminal decline.
In a recent letter to the UN Security Council, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York vehemently rejected the accusations leveled by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom (E3) regarding Iran's nuclear program.
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami says Iran is scaling down its commitment to the moribund nuclear deal with the West after the other parties failed to fulfill their obligations.
Salar Aghapour, the former player for Spain's Palma futsal team and a member of Iran's national futsal team, has been named the world's best young player by Futsal Planet, the most prestigious futsal media outlet globally.
Iran's acting president says Tehran will continue late president Ebrahim Raisi’s policy on Iraq with full force. Mohammad Mokhber was speaking with visiting Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid who has arrived in Tehran at the top of a high-ranking political delegation.
A large number of mourners took to the streets in the northwestern Iranian city of Maragheh on Friday to take part in the funeral ceremony of East Azarbaijan province’s governor Malek Rahmati who died in the helicopter crash on Sunday along with President Ebrahim Raisi and six other companions.
In a profoundly sombre ceremony, the late President of Iran, Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, was laid to rest in his home city of Mashhad, four days after passing away in a tragic helicopter crash.
A large number of people have packed the streets in the eastern Iranian city of Birjand to participate in President Ebrahim Raisi’s funeral procession, aerial images show.
The Leader the Islamic Revolution of Iran sent a message of condolences on Monday on the tragic death of President Ebrahim Raisi and his accompanying delegation in a helicopter crash, appointing first vice president as the caretaker chief executive of the country.
The exact crash site of the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi has been identified, that’s according to the IRGC Commander of East Azerbaijan province.