Iran Parliament

Masoud Pezeshkian will be sworn in as the 9th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran at a ceremony in the Parliament on July 30, a lawmaker has stated.

The Iranian parliament will hold meetings within two months to review the qualifications and vote of confidence for the proposed ministers of incoming President Massoud Pezeshkian, a member of the parliament’s Presiding Board said on Sunday.

Iranian parliamentarians signed a statement on Sunday denouncing Canada for listing Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a ‘terrorist’ organization.

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf was elected on Tuesday as the Iranian parliament’s speaker for a one-year period.

The inauguration ceremony of the twelfth term of the Iranian parliament was held on Monday morning (May 27, 2024) with the elected lawmakers and a group of government and military officials in attendance.

The Iranian parliament voted on Wednesday to include Saturdays as the second official weekend on the country’s calendar, after a heated controversy over choosing between Saturday and Thursday.

Iran’s interior minister has hailed the Iranian people for their turnout in the second round of the parliamentary elections held on Friday.

Iran’s Elections Headquarters announced on Saturday the final list of the candidates who won the ticket in the runoff stage of the parliamentary elections for the remaining seats up for grabs in the 290-seat assembly.

The upcoming parliamentary elections in Iran on May 10 will determine the fate of 45 remaining seats across 22 constituencies nationwide.

An Iranian official says Parliament has replaced operations by morality police with cash fines in order to deal with those refusing to observe the Islamic Dress Code (hijab).

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has stated every new parliament is a valuable asset, which will bring fresh hopes for the country.

Iran’s interior minister puts the number of people who voted in the Friday parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at 25 million.

As the final results of the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections in Iran came out, an Iranian daily has termed the 41-percent turnout in the polls, the lowest since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, ‘alarming.’

Vote count for Iran’s 290-seat parliament and the Assembly of Experts ended on Monday, three days after the elections, with the winners of 45 seats to be elected in the runoff polls.

Voting in the parliamentary elections in the Tehran constituency is likely to go to a second round.

The electoral system in Iran is neither similar to the parliamentary democracy in other countries, nor can it lead to the emergence of the most deserved or popular candidates, an Iranian daily argues.

Over 25 million people took part in Friday’s parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections in Iran, which amounts to 41 percent of the total eligible votes, IRNA news agency reported.

Spokesperson for Iran’s elections headquarters says women constitute 47 of voters in the country’s parliamentary and the Assembly of Experts Elections, while the remaining 53 percent are men.

President Ebrahim Raisi lauded the Iranian nation as the winner of the elections, which he described as a manifestation of national unity.

Polls have opened across Iran in the country’s legislative and Assembly of Experts elections.

Campaigning officially ended on Thursday in Iran as the clock is ticking down for parliamentary and Assembly of Experts polls.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has stated that if the nation shows the world that they are present in "decisive scenes", they will save the country and contribute to Iran’s progress. The Leader called for a high turnout in this Friday elections.

Iran's Tasnim news agency says the final number of candidates running for the upcoming elections in the country reaches 15,220.

In a morning announcement, the Iranian Parliament revealed that both the official website of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and its affiliated news agency, House of Nation, have been rendered inaccessible due to cyberattacks and hacking.

The Iranian Consultative Assembly News Agency, affiliated with the country’s parliament, was hacked on Tuesday and is not accessible.