Posts Tagged: Iran elections
Tensions Grow Between Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei and Re-Elected President Rouhani
Tensions are mounting between Iran’s supreme leader and the country’s president after the latter’s landslide victory in last month’s election. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 78, has sharpened...
Iran’s Presidential Candidates Fiddle as the Economy Burns
In the third and last debate before Iran’s May 19 presidential election, all six candidates said that the country's economy was in ruins. “Iran’s economy is headed toward collapse,”...
Presidential Hopefuls in Iran Focus on Rouhani’s Failed Economic Promises
President Hassan Rouhani's trip to the coal mine in northern Iran was all going to plan, until the crowd massed in front of his car...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei Dismisses President Rouhani’s Detente Policy Ahead of Election
Iranians should not thank Hassan Rouhani's policy of detente with the West for any reduction in the threat of war, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
Iranian President Rouhani Faces Stiff Opposition in Upcoming Elections, as Islamic Republic Poised for Shake-Up
JNS.org -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani faces several serious challengers in his bid for re-election, with one regional expert explaining that the republic may be poised...
Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Run for President, Again
JNS.org - In a surprise move on Wednesday, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially filed to run in the Islamic Republic’s presidential race in May. News of...
Iran’s Khamenei Tells Ahmadinejad Not to Run Again for President
Iran's supreme leader has told former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to stand again in next year's elections, state media reported on Monday, effectively eliminating...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Reportedly to Run Again for Iranian Presidency in 2017
JNS.org - Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly announced that he will run in Iran’s spring 2017 presidential elections. The former speaker for Ahmadinejad’s government, Gholam-Hossein...
The Sham of Iranian Elections: The Supreme Leader Still Reigns Supreme
With the election of Ahmad Jannati as chairman of the Iranian Assembly of Experts and Ali Larijani as parliament speaker, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
Iran’s ‘Moderates’ Still Hate America
When talking about politics in Iran, Western media outlets divide the leadership into the “reformists” and the “hardliners.” The reformists are supposed to be the “good guys”...
Iran’s Election Charade
Early returns for Iran’s national legislature, or Majlis, indicate that “moderates” and “reformers” won big in Tehran. But “Downstate” Majlis outcomes are slower to appear....
Iran’s ‘Moderates’ Are Anything But
JNS.org - You don’t hear that much these days about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president whose penchant for denying the Holocaust at every opportunity became...
Iran’s ‘Elections’ Were a Total Fraud
The Islamic Republic of Iran held two “elections” simultaneously on February 26, 2016: Parliamentary elections, and elections for the Assembly of Experts. According to Iranian state...
No New Dawn in Iran
For the past three years, the West has been tricking itself into seeing the Islamic Republic of Iran as a country undergoing a gradual process...
