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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Iran qualifies 8 candidates for presidential election media

    Iran's Guardian Council of Constitution, the high legislative body of the country, has approved the qualification of eight presidential candidates, semi- official Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.Reportedly, among the qualified candidates, Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, former foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati, senior lawmaker Gholam- ...

  • UPDATE 2-Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad ally barred from Iran election

    Tue May 21, 2013 3:41pm EDT * Two candidates made last-minute bid to run for election * Both antagonised Iran's clerical elite * Ahmadinejad aide Mashaie says will try to appeal (Adds details, Mashaie response) By Marcus George DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities on Tuesday barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 ...

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