MNA The elected representatives of Tehraners have considerable experience and expertise in executive, legislative, academic, seminal, and research fields.
The results of the 11th Parliamentary election in Tehran were finalized last week. Most of the elected members are from the principalists. All of the 30 members of the Coalition Council ...
Financial Tribune - Tehran Province registered the lowest turnout in the 11th parliamentary election while Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad Province saw the largest number of voters, according to data released by the Interior Ministry.
Interior Minister Morteza Rahmani-Fazli said just over 2.5 million people in Tehran cast votes during the Feb. 21 election,...
Reuters - Irans interior minister said on Sunday that turnout in the countrys parliamentary election on Feb. 21 was around 42%, state TV reported, the lowest participation since Irans 1979 Islamic revolution.
Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said more than 24 million people out of 58 million eligible voters participated in the election on Friday.
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The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Irans conservatives are on the brink of a landslide victory in the countrys parliamentary elections as forecasts show them taking more than two-thirds of the seats.
The reformists, the largest grouping in the outgoing parliament, have been decisively beaten, with predictions showing them taking only 17 seats in the ...
MNA Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei thanked the aware and determined Iranian nation, who responded positively to the Islamic establishments call for participation in the parliamentary elections.
Addressing the class of advanced Islamic Jurisprudence (khareje Fiqh) on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei expressed gratitude ...
MNA Vote counting in the electoral district of Tehran city to this point reveals that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has the major lead.
Initial unofficial results show that the 30-candidate list of Principalists, headed by Ghalibaf, have gained most of the votes.
The final results of some other electoral districts have also been announced while officials ...
ISNA | Mona Hoobehfekr, Farzad Khabooshani, Seyed Mohammad Alerasoul, Alireza Mohammadi, Parisa Jofrei, Azam Dadashi & Parisa Behzadi: Iranians across the country have gone to the polls to cast their votes in the country's 11th parliamentary elections and Assembly of Experts polls.
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Press TV | Hossein Jelveh: Elections in Iran are big news. Not just because they receive too much attention in the foreign media. But also in the sense that they make a difference in the Iranian peoples lives in a way that whether it feels small or big at first is very meaningful in the longer term.
Iranians, like Americans, are mostly divided ...
MNA Secretary of Guardian Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said on Tuesday that the Iranian people trust the establishment as a result of holding successful elections in the past 40 years.
There is no possibility of fraud in the election, he said, noting that people trust the health of the election as it has been proved during the past 40 years....
IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that public participation in elections means existence of national resolve to reconstruct the society, as no power is above the public and young generation.
Referring to public turnout in presidential elections on May 19, 2017, he told a gathering of students on Sunday that the people took long steps ...
Tasnim The date of the swearing-in ceremony for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who was re-elected for a second term by a landslide in May, has changed, a lawmaker announced.
Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Behrouz Nemati, a member of the parliaments presiding board, said President Rouhani was previously slated to take the oath of office ...
Financial Times | Gary Kleiman: The Tehran Stock Exchange index rallied to eliminate its 5 per cent loss since the beginning of the year after Hassan Rouhani, the self-styled moderate president, convincingly won a second term in mid-May, overcoming a unified conservative challenge from a close ally of Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader.
His ...
Youth Ki Awaaz | Sourajit Aiyer: The world is now aware of the victory of the incumbent Rouhani over the challenger Raisi in Irans recent presidential elections. However, it must be brought to notice that irrespective of the identity of the victor, India will have to seek the same path for its Iran strategy act fast and selfishly.
A year ago, India ...
MNA Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is addressing the official ceremony to commemorate 28th anniversary of demise of founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini at his mausoleum in Tehran.
The ceremony is attended by officials from the government, foreign gusets and ambassadors as well as hundreds of Iranian people.
The Leader of Islamic Revolution ...
IFP - A number of Iranian lawmakers have expressed their gratitude towards Irans police forces for their efforts to ensure the security at the time of the countrys May 19 elections.
A total of 207 Iranian MPs have issued a statement, expressing their appreciation for the efforts made by Irans police forces to guarantee the security of ...
Tasnim - Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli will go to the Parliament next week to give a report on the process of holding the recent elections in Iran.
Mr. Rahmani Fazli, whose ministry was in charge of holding the 12th presidential election, the 5th City and Village Councils elections, and the Parliaments midterm election across ...
IFP - A political analyst says advocates of different political camps in Iran should set their differences aside to pave the way for the new administration to work towards boosting national development.
Political commentator Fathollah Amoli has, in an article published in the Persian-language Ettelaat daily, weighed in on the division ...
Huffington Post | Georges Ugeux: Donald Trump might have missed the most positive news from the Middle East last week. It was not his antagonistic declarations in Riyadh, Israel, Brussels and Italy.
It came from Iran: President Hassan Rouhani had managed the tour de force to be reelected against a conservative candidate and a few others,...
RNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the true winners of the May 19 elections were the Iranian people and the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
People elected what they really wanted from their hearts and now we have to shoulder our responsibility with patience, ' the President said while addressing ...