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Iranian Guardian Council head Ahmad Jannati delivering the Friday prayers sermon at Tehran University, October 16, 2009. (AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri)
May 24, 2016, 11:46 am
Hardline cleric elected head of key Iran oversight body
Ultra-conservative Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati will lead clerical panel tasked with selecting the country's next supreme leader
By AFP
An Iranian woman casts her ballot to vote for both parliamentary elections and Assembly of Experts at a polling station at Massoumeh shrine in the holy city of Qom, 130 kilometers south of Tehran, on February 26, 2016. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)
April 27, 2016, 7:49 am
Iran’s parliament in the balance in election run-off
Reformists seek to consolidate gains in fresh voting for 68 constituencies where no candidate won 25% in February ballot
By Arthur Macmillan
Illustrative photo of a prison in Iran (CC BY-SA Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)
April 26, 2016, 3:46 pm
Iran jails 4 journalists ‘linked to hostile Western governments’
Sentences of 5-10 years handed down for criticizing Supreme Leader Khamenei and former president Ahmadinejad
By AFP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
April 10, 2016, 1:25 am
Iran regime critic wants to expose 2009 election fraud
Mehdi Karroubi, defeated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 and under house arrest since 2011, demands to be put on trial
By AP
Iranian tycoon Babak Zanjani who was sentenced to death in Iran after a corruption conviction, March 2016. (YouTube/NEWS9LIVE)
March 6, 2016, 5:24 pm
Iran tycoon Zanjani sentenced to death for corruption
Billionaire convicted of fraudulently pocketing $2.8 billion in oil ministry cash
By AFP
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani registering his candidacy for president in May 2013. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 29, 2016, 9:26 pm
Rafsanjani and Iran’s ‘House of Cards’
Once a key ally of Khamenei, then pushed out by conservatives, the former president returns in force to dominate Tehran politics
By Avi Issacharoff
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks with media at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, February 27, 2016. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 29, 2016, 6:57 pm
Official results: Iranian relative moderates win majority in parliament, clerical body
Elections mark rise of those who favor expanded social freedoms and engagement with West, creating a parliament more to Rouhani's liking
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Iranian women show their identification, as they queue in a polling station to vote for the parliamentary and Experts Assembly elections in Qom, 125 kilometers (78 miles) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 27, 2016, 6:03 pm
Early Iran results show gains for relative moderates
60% of 55 million Iranians said to have voted; Rouhani's so-called 'reformist' camp heading for best parliamentary showing in a decade
By AP and AFP
Iranians hold their identification cards as they line up outside a polling station at Massoumeh shrine during the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at a polling station in the holy city of Qom, 130kms south of the capital Tehran, on February 26, 2016. (AFP / BEHROUZ MEHRI)
February 27, 2016, 3:24 pm
First Iran poll results show seats split among rivals
60% of 55 million Iranians voted; as count gets under way, 8 of first 20 constituences go to conservatives, 4 to reformists and 8 to independents
By AFP
An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot for both parliamentary elections and the Assembly of Experts at a polling station in Tehran on February 26, 2016. (AFP / ATTA KENARE)
February 27, 2016, 9:32 am
High turnout in Iran elections raises hope for moderates
Millions of eligible voters take part in what is being seen as a de facto referendum on President Rouhani's government
By AFP
Head of the reformists' coalition list of the Iranian parliamentary elections in Tehran Mohammad Reza Aref, center, and his wife Hamideh Moravej Farshi cast their ballots at a polling station in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
February 27, 2016, 5:58 am
Reformists, moderates leading in Iran parliament vote
Early results indicate hardliners are main losers in Friday's elections; Rouhani's supporters seeking greater democracy could have strongest presence since 2004
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Iranians commute past a banner with a cartoon depicting Britain's Queen Elizabeth II with a camel head and a slogan that reads, 'England wants to interfere in Iran's elections' in downtown Teheran on February 25, 2016. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
February 26, 2016, 4:32 am
Key electoral lists in Friday’s Iran election
Despite the exclusion of many of their candidates by the ruling ayatollahs, reformists hope for gains in poll
By AFP
An Iranian woman walks in front of an electoral banner of Hamideh Ghadiri, a candidate in parliamentary elections in Vanak square in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. The banner reads in Persian: "Hamideh Ghadiri - defender of women's rights." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
February 26, 2016, 12:37 am
Iran’s reformists hoping for boost in parliament election
Vote pits nuclear deal's supporters who urge greater openness against conservatives warning of Western 'plundering powers'
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Iranians walk outside the Massoumeh holy shrine in the city of Qom, 130 kilometres south of Tehran, on February 24, 2016. (AFP / ATTA KENARE)
February 25, 2016, 9:02 pm
Ahead of poll, most Iranians cite economic concerns
Financial problems dominate debate in political sphere on eve of elections
By Siavosh GHAZI
Illustrative photo of two Iranian women casting their ballots during the presidential and municipal councils elections in a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 18, 2016, 11:31 pm
99% of Iran’s reformist parliamentary candidates rejected
Conservative-dominated Guardian Council approves only 30 of over 30,000 reformist candidates to run in February election
By Arthur Macmillan
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