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  • Iran Bars Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide

    IA conservative body in Iran has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election: moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian interior ministry said Tuesday the Guardian Council of clerics and jurists excluded the two politicians from a final list of eight candidates ...

  • Kerry Mideast Talks on Syria to Include Russian Call for Involving Iran

    STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Middle East this week for talks to promote an international peace conference on Syria. Russia wants Iran to be part of the process. In this fight for control of Syria, Iran is one of the biggest backers of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. So Russia says Iran should be part of the peace process. "Iran has ...

  • Iran allows eight contenders for presidential election

    Iranian legislative body has approved eligibility of eight presidential candidates for the June 14 poll in the country, Xinhua reported Tuesday. The candidates, including the country's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and former foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati -- for the presidential election have been approved by Iran's Guardian Council of Constitution, semi-official Mehr news agency ...

  • Iran bans Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in presidential election

    Two key challengers in the race to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran have been banned from taking part in next month's elections, it emerged on Tuesday ...

  • Iran Bars Mashaei and Rafsanjani as Candidates

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  • Reformist blocked from running for Iranian presidency

    The country's former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was expected to win votes from the centre ground and among Iran's moderates, was blocked along 678 other candidates who had initially put their names forward. Among the others to be told that they cannot stand is Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei - an ally of the current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is barred from taking part in ...

  • Irans presidential election clearing the path

    Iran 's presidential election in 2009 still hangs heavily over the country. Even though the leaders of the Green movement are today under house arrest, and its membership divided over whether to boycott the presidential elections next month, much of what is happening is a result of the lessons the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, learned then. In preparation for the announcement of ...

  • Former Iran President Rafsanjani barred from June election

    Iran’s former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been barred from running in next month’s presidential election. The 78-year-old who led the country between 1989 and 97 is not among the eight final candidates confirmed by the electoral watchdog, the Guardian Council. A former chief of staff to President Ahmadinejad, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has also been disqualified, according ...

  • Iran candidate list for presidential race

    COMBO - This combination of eight pictures shows eight candidates approved Tuesday, May 21, 2013 for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits, clockwise from left: Mohammad Gharazi, Mohsen Rezaei, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, Saeed Jalili, Ali Akbar Velayati, and Hasan Rowhani, taken between May 9 ...

  • Report Top politicians banned from Iranian election

    DUBAI - Iranian authorities have barred two prominent politicians from running for president, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, leaving the June 14 election to be contested between mostly hardline conservatives loyal to the country's supreme leader.Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, failed to make it ...

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