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The contenders for Iran's upcoming presidential elections: (top L-R) Head of the Islamic Coalition Party's Central Council Mostafa Mirsalim; former minister Mostafa Hashemitaba; Iran's first Vice-President, Eshaq Jahangiri; (bottom L-R) cleric, Ebrahim Raisi; Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Mayor of Tehran, and President Hassan Rouhani. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

April 21, 2017, 3:30 am

A look at Iran’s presidential candidates

Rouhani and five rivals approved by Guardian Council to run in elections next month

By AP

Spokeswoman for the Popular Front of the Forces of the Islamic Revolution and former Iranian health minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)

January 25, 2017, 12:23 pm

Woman floated as hardline candidate for Iranian presidency

Even as former health minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi enjoys support, females are currently banned from running

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

October 5, 2016, 2:29 pm

Iran could cut down on executions

After 1,000 death sentences carried out in 2015, parliamentary bill aims to remove drug smuggling from list of capital offenses

By Stuart Winer

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani (C) attends the 13th Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit at Istanbul Congress Center (ICC) on April 14, 2016 in Istanbul. (AFP/SEBNEM COSKUN)

July 27, 2016, 2:35 pm

Iran announces May 19 presidential election

Rouhani, under pressure from conservatives unhappy over nuclear deal and rapprochement with the West, set to run again

By Agencies

Iranian lawmaker-elect Minoo Khaleghi. (Wikipedia/Hamed Malekpour/Tasnim News Agency/CC BY 4.0)

From the WebMay 12, 2016, 4:33 am

She won a seat in Iran’s parliament, but hard-liners had other plans

Minoo Khaleghi accused of ‘betraying the nation’ by allegedly not wearing a head scarf while traveling abroad, The New York Times reports

Iranian MPs attend a parliament session in Tehran, March 1, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

April 16, 2016, 9:48 am

New female Iranian MP ‘barred over handshake with man’

Powerful Guardian Council issues ban on reformist Minoo Khaleghi entering parliament over apparently unconfirmed image taken in China

By TOI staff

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)

March 14, 2016, 4:19 pm

Second round of Iran elections set for April 29

Fresh round of voting is to fill 69 parliamentary seats left unassigned after February ballot that saw major gains by moderates

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

Iranians display their ink-stained finger after casting their ballot for both parliamentary elections and the Assembly of Experts at a polling station in Tehran on February 26, 2016. (AFP / ATTA KENARE)

February 26, 2016, 3:04 pm

High turnout as Iranians determine country’s direction

Local media reports authorities ‘overwhelmed’ by number of voters as moderates and conservatives battle for ballots

By TOI staff and AP

An Iranian man casts his ballot at a polling station in Tehran on February 26, 2016 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

February 26, 2016, 7:59 am

Polls open in Iran’s vital post-nuke deal elections

As moderates face off against hard-liners for parliament and key leadership panel, Khamenei urges voters to ‘make the enemy disappointed’

By AP and AFP

Iranian women in Teheran attend a meeting of Iran's main conservative parties ahead of parliamentary elections, February 23, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

February 26, 2016, 4:45 am

Iran’s election: Voting figures and methods

Some 60 percent of candidates disqualified by clerics, who must also approve the results of Friday’s vote

By AFP

An Iranian woman walks past electoral posters of parliamentary election candidates on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

February 26, 2016, 2:52 am

Glance at Iran elections as Islamic Republic readies to vote

Results in Friday’s elections for 290-member parliament seen as bellwether for future of reformist factions

By Adam Schreck

Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)

February 9, 2016, 10:39 pm

Iran’s Khatami urges supporters to vote despite candidate crackdown

Reformist ex-president says ‘massive participation’ in upcoming parliamentary elections serves ‘national interests’

By Nasser Karimi and ALI AKBAR DAREINI

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

A view of Iran's parliament in Tehran, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

December 19, 2015, 7:41 pm

Registration opens in Iran’s parliamentary elections

Candidates require approval of Guardian Council in electoral battle between President Rouhani’s supporters, opponents

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI