Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that peaceful transfer of power is a sign of rationality and confidence in the country. In a ceremony held atImam Khomeini Hussainia on Tuesday and attended by a host of high-ranking officials of the country, Ayatollah Khamenei endorsed Ebrahim Raiesias the new Iranian President. After ...

Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi reminded the US of its responsibility to carry out the 2015 nuclear deal, saying Washington must also lift all of the sanctions on Iran. Speaking in his first press conference after winning the presidential election, Raeisi took a swipe at the US for violating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and at the ...

Irans top negotiators in the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal said Tehrans policies are not going to change under the administration of President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi, who will take office in August. In an interview with Japans NHK in Vienna after the conclusion of the sixth round of JCPOA talks on Sunday, Deputy Foreign Minister ...

Many political leaders and prominent figures in the region and the world in separate messages congratulated Iran's President-elect Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi for his victory in the 13th presidential election. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, interior minister Rahmani Fazli announced the final result of the presidential election.Final presidential ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the epic turnout in Irans 2021 presidential election, saying the great winners of the key vote are the people themselves, whose iron will was broken by neither the pandemic nor attempts at frustrating them. In a message addressed to the Iranian nation on Saturday, the Leader ...

Iranian presidential candidates Mohsen Rezaee, Abdolnasser Hemmati and Seyed Amir Hossein Qazizadeh Hashemi congratulated their rival Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi on victory in the Friday election before an official announcement of the results. In separate messages implying concession of defeat on Saturday morning, Rezaee, Hemmati and Qazizadeh Hashemi ...

Initial results emerged so far from the June 18 Iran presidential election announced by the Election Office suggest that Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has taken a wide lead over rivals with 17.8 million votes out of 28.6 million ballots counted. Iran's Deputy Interior Minister and Head of Election Office Jamal Araf announced on Saturday that ...

he Iranian Judiciarys High Council for Human Rightshas censured the Commonwealth member states such as the UK, Australia and New Zealand for failing to provide security for the Iranians voting in the 13th presidential election at the embassies of theirhost countries. In post on its Twitter account late on Friday, the rights council also hit out ...

Polling stations across Iran opened on Friday morning for the 13th presidential election, the 6th City and Village Councils elections, as well as the Parliament and the Assembly of Experts midterm election. Polling stations across Iran opened at 7 am local time and will continue to receive voters until midnight. The Interior Ministry says it may ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei cast a ballot in Irans presidential election on Friday morning as soon as the voting kicked off, calling on all Iranians to take part in the major national test. The Leader cast his ballot at the Imam Khomeini Husseiniya in Tehran at 7 am local time, with enthusiastic journalists and ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who is on a trip to Turkey cast his vote in the 13th presidential in a voting center in Antalya Friday morning. Zarif arrived in Turkey yesterday to attend Antalya diplomacy forum. Irans presidential election is being held nationwide and in 133 countries. Some 500 international journalists ...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani cast his vote in the 13th presidential and sixth city and village councils elections. Irans presidential election is being held nationwide and in 133 countries. Some 500 international journalists from 226 foreign media are covering the event in Iran. 59,310,307 Iranians are eligible to vote, from which 1.3 million ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has delivered an address to the nation two days before polls open in Irans 13th presidential election, calling the forthcoming vote decisive. Ayatollah Khamenei began his remarks on Wednesday (June 16), broadcast live on state television and social media, by stressing both the republican ...

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Irans foreign minister, who would have been the Reformist camps top presidential candidate if he had chosen to run, has invited the Iranian people to participate in the June 18 election, saying breakup with ballot boxes will not contribute to a resolution of the countrys economic woes. In a video message he shared on his Instagram ...

The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Iran said the Iranian expatriates can cast their ballots in the June 18 presidential election in more than 230 polling stations in the foreign countries. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Saeed Khatibzadeh said the arrangements to hold the Iranian presidential election in the foreign countries have ...

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani warned against a distortion of the facts in the race for his post, saying all candidates must observe the moral principles and avoid misrepresenting the truth in order to pave the way for the maximum turnout in the upcoming election. Addressing a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Rouhani said people of Iran must be encouraged ...

The Interior Ministry has published the list of candidates approved by the Guardian Council on Tuesday. As it had been reported by the Guardian Council spokesman, only seven candidates have been approved by the Guardian Council out of the total 592 hopefuls that had registered to run for president. According to the Interior Ministry's statement,...

On the first anniversary of the inauguration of the 11th Majlis, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is holding an online video conference with the members of the Iranian Parliament on Thursday. t the beginning of his speech, the Leader emphasized the importance of the upcoming presidential election, saying that the electionis ...

Irans President Hassan Rouhani says he has written to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to express his grievances about the recent disqualification of certain presidential hopefuls including his Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri by the countrys Constitutional Council in the run-up to the presidential election next month....

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Irans foreign minister, has announced he will not be running for president in the June 18 election, officially turning down a major appeal by the Reformist camp and potentially reshaping the race. In a rather cryptic Instagram post on Wednesday, Zarif officially announced what he had already implied by resisting weeks of Reformist ...