Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani urged Iranian voters not to let the progress achieved in his role be gone, warning that they could face greater authoritarianism if they replace him with a hardline rival in May’s election. [ More … ]
The European Union is approaching Iran to signal to its commitment to the nuclear deal despite Trump’s latest remarks, and holding out the promise of its economic payoff ahead of May 19 presidential polls, EU [ More … ]
Iran’s six candidates for the presidential election squared off in their first live television debate on Friday, where the current president Rouhani was put under heavy criticism over his economic policy. Iran made a historic [ More … ]
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei called on presidential candidates on Tuesday to champion economic self-sufficiency and distance themselves from the west, in a clear criticism of the current president Hassan Rouhani. Iran made a historic nuclear deal [ More … ]
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has put his name into Iran’s presidential elections race a couple of weeks ago, analysts said that the divisions inside the house of hardliners started to appear on the surface. These thoughts [ More … ]
Out of 1636 registered candidates to run for the Iran’s presidential elections next month, six qualified candidates were chosen finally, including three conservatives and three reformists. Current President Hassan Rouhani is among those standing and is expected to face [ More … ]
Political divisions among the Iranian hardliners’ ranks became clearer after the former President Ahmadinejad announced taking part in the upcoming Iranian elections despite warning from the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, adding more challenges that Rouhani will face for [ More … ]
Iranian Shi’ite cleric Ebrahim Raisi seems is most likely to be the hardliners’ choice to compete with moderate President Hassan Rouhani in the next presidential vote in May, as their campaigns are expected to be focused on [ More … ]
As the hardliners in Iran keep criticizing Rouhani and his role, they have gathered and nominated a powerful cleric as their possible candidate to run in next month’s presidential election, Iran’s state news agency IRNA said. Iran made [ More … ]
As Iran’s presidential election will be held on May 19, president Hassan Rouhani keeps receiving hard criticism despite the economic benefits he brought to Iran, what threatens his odds to run for a second term. Iran [ More … ]
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