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Iran names six approved candidates for presidential election
Euronews via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoMassoud Pezeshkian – Former health minister and sole reformist candidate, who is a lawmaker...
Iran OKs 6 candidates for presidential race, but again blocks Ahmadinejad
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe council again barred former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a firebrand populist known for the...
Iran approves list of mostly hardline candidates for presidential election to replace Raisi
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThe Iranian election committee has approved a slate of mostly hardline candidates to run in the...
Iran Approves Six Candidates to Run for President. All but One Are Conservatives.
The Wall Street Journal· 21 hours agoNotably, the Guardian Council—a body of clerics aligned with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei —banned...
Iran approves six presidential candidates but blocks former president from running
Just the News· 20 hours agoThe council allowed the country's parliament speaker and five others to run in the June 28...
Middle Eastern Politics Headlines at 8:01 p.m. GMT
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election
Iran Set For Hardliner-Dominated Election to Replace Raisi
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 8 hours ago(Bloomberg) -- Iran’s snap presidential election will be dominated by establishment hardliners, with...
Iran approves six candidates out of 80 for presidential election
dpa international via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIran's Guardian Council, an appointed council made up of six clerics and six jurists charged with...
Iran's hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the theocracy's top figure in the presidential vote
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoQalibaf, a former Tehran mayor with close ties to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard,...