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Footage of the Israeli strike on a building in the Iranian city of Qom where a body was set to choose Iran's new supreme leader on March 3, 2026. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 3, 2026, 7:35 pm
Israel strikes building where Iranian clerics said gathering to elect new supreme leader
IDF confirms Air Force hit building in Qom where Assembly of Experts believed to gather; unclear how many of its 88 members were in attendance; unsourced report says none of them
By Emanuel Fabian and AFP
A woman fills out her ballot as a policeman walks past during the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 1, 2024 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi).
March 4, 2024, 12:04 pm
Hardline conservatives secure bulk of parliamentary seats in Iran election
Authorities still counting ballots from first election since Mahsa Amini killing, fail to explain delay
By AP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
January 24, 2024, 8:44 pm
Iran’s Rouhani barred from standing for reelection to key clerical body
Top constitutional council bars former president from running for seat on Assembly of Experts, which appoints and can dismiss supreme leader
By Reuters
Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, January 21, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons; CC BY 4.0)
April 26, 2023, 1:19 pm
Powerful Iranian cleric killed in attack — state media
Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, member of 88-strong Assembly of Experts responsible for selecting supreme leader, said killed in armed attack; assailant arrested
By AFP
People wearing face masks exercise on the shore of an artificial lake in western Tehran, Iran, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 16, 2020, 11:40 am
Member of top Iranian clerical assembly dies from virus
Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei, 78, was latest senior regime official to contract COVID-19; government figures show outbreak in the country has infected 14,000 people and killed over 700
By Amir Vahdat
A woman has her temperature checked and her hands disinfected as she enters the Palladium Shopping Center in northern Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2020. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
March 12, 2020, 9:43 pm
Top Iranian cleric okays buying future Israeli coronavirus vaccine
Naser Makarem Shirazi, 93, a Holocaust-denying hardliner and one of the highest religious authorities in Iran, says using vaccine made by ‘Zionists’ okay if ‘there’s no substitute’
By ToI Staff
People arrive to mourn after the death of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, at Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 10, 2017, 10:55 am
Thousands throng funeral for Iran’s Rafsanjani
White House sends unprecedented condolence message as father figure of moderate and reformist camps laid to rest
By Ali Noorani
Mourners gather around the coffin of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a mourning ceremony at the Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 9, 2017, 3:07 pm
Mourning Rafsanjani, Iran frets over moderate movement’s future
A pivotal figure in foundation of Islamic Republic in 1979, former president hailed as leading reformist, counterweight to hardliners
By AFP and AP
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati arrives with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal at a ceremony at Tehran university, Feb. 2, 2009. The picture frame features Iran's late leader Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
May 29, 2016, 1:54 am
Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker
Op-Ed: The administration keeps mum as Tehran elevates a ‘Death to America’-spouting radical, but speaks out as peace-promising Liberman joins Israel’s coalition. Go figure
By David Horovitz
An Iranian man puts up election posters in the city of Qom, some 130 kilometers south of the capital, February 24, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
March 15, 2016, 1:44 am
Iran to hold parliamentary runoffs on April 29
Nearly a quarter of parliamentary seats to face second-round ballot following last month’s surge by reformists
By AP
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
Hassan Rouhani (right) and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a session of Assembly of Experts in Tehran, September 2013. (AP)
February 29, 2016, 10:16 am
Relative moderates win majority on key Iran leadership body
Two leading hardliners ousted as Rouhani camp takes 52 of 88 seats on Assembly of Experts, which chooses supreme leader
By Agencies
Iranians 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, February 26, 2016. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
February 28, 2016, 1:33 am
Iran president, top ally lead after vote for key body
Rouhani and Rafsanjani widely backed, hardline conservatives suffer in ballots for Assembly of Experts, the body that selects regime’s supreme leader
By AFP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press-conference following a meeting his Swiss counterpart in the capital Tehran, on February 27, 2016. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)
February 27, 2016, 9:45 pm
Rouhani on course for major gains in Iran elections
With 44% of vote counted, coalition of moderates and reformists is ahead in all but one of Tehran’s 30 seats
By Arthur Macmillan
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