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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Iran reformists

Abbas Araghchi speaks, while still a nominee for foreign minister, in an open session of parliament during the second day of debate on the 19 proposed ministers by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, August 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 21, 2024, 8:20 pm
Iran’s parliament approves chief negotiator of 2015 nuclear deal as new FM
Hardline lawmakers back all of President Masoud Pezeshkian’s cabinet picks, indicating they’re acceptable to all power centers in the Islamic Republic
By Agencies
Newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran, on July 6, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
July 13, 2024, 12:30 pm
Iranian president-elect calls for improved relations with Europe
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian claims EU reneged on commitments to mitigate sanctions following US withdrawal from nuclear deal, but he is looking to turn a page in relations
By AFP
Newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran, on July 6, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
July 7, 2024, 7:37 pm
Election of Iran’s Pezeshkian raises prospects of new nuclear talks with the West
For Israel, win for conservative candidate would have led West to up its pressure on Tehran, but newly elected reformist’s offer of negotiations will likely be embraced
By Amir Bar Shalom
Reformist candidate for Iran's presidential election Masoud Pezeshkian clenches his fists during a campaign rally in Tehran, Iran, July 3, 2024. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
July 6, 2024, 2:12 pm
Masoud Pezeshkian: From heart surgeon to Iran’s new reformist president-elect
Pezeshkian has indicated he wants better ties with West, return to nuclear accord, less enforcement of hijab law. But he won’t challenge Khamenei or the regime’s theocratic system
By AP
Combination of photos showing Iranian presidential election candidates Masoud Pezeshkian, left, and Saeed Jalili, a hard-line former senior nuclear negotiator, during their campaigns, in Tehran, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
July 5, 2024, 8:47 am
Polls open in Iran’s presidential run-off election, amid widespread voter apathy
First round saw lowest voter turnout since revolution in 1979; next president will be closely involved in selecting successor to supreme leader, the ultimate authority in Iran
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Iranian presidential candidate and reformist Massoud Pezeshkian reacts to the crowd outside a polling station where he cast his vote in the presidential election in Tehran on June 28, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
June 28, 2024, 4:34 pm
Iran’s sole reformist candidate wants warm ties ‘with all countries except Israel’
Masoud Pezeshkian decries ‘inhuman or invasive behavior’ against women, in response to question over crackdown during 2022 Mahsa Amini protests
By AP and ToI Staff
Women walk past election posters for Iranian reformist presidential candidate Massoud Pezeshkian along a street in Tehran on June 26, 2024 ahead of the vote. (RAHEB HOMAVANDI / AFP)
June 27, 2024, 2:56 pm
2 hardliners quit Iran presidential race a day before vote, warn of reformist victory
Vice president drops out, followed by ultraconservative mayor of Tehran, in mutual push to form ‘united front’ against reformist Massoud Pezeshkian in Friday’s election
By AFP
This combination created on June 18, 2024 of handout pictures provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) shows Presidential candidates (clockwise) Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Alireza Zakani, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Masoud Pezeshkian, Saeed Jalili, and Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi during a debate at the Iran State television studio in Tehran on June 17, 2024. (MORTEZA FAKHRINEJAD / IRIB / AFP)
June 18, 2024, 8:35 pm
Iran’s six presidential candidates debate economic issues as elections near
With Islamic Republic dealing with financial difficulties, some candidates wish to continue path of late president Raisi, others seek reform
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iran's former senior vice president, Eshaq Jahangiri, speaks in a press briefing after registering his name as candidate for the June 28 presidential election at the Interior Ministry, in Tehran, Iran, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 8, 2024, 8:59 pm
Iran’s Reform Front threatens to shun presidential vote unless its candidate can run
Three coalition members are expected to be disqualified by council that decides who can compete in snap election called after Raisi’s death
By AFP
File: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami speaks during a gathering in Tehran to support a leading reformist candidate in presidential elections on May 23, 2009. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
December 7, 2022, 5:04 pm
Iran’s reformist ex-president praises ‘beautiful’ protests, pans regime’s crackdown
Mohammad Khatami calls ‘Woman, life, freedom’ chant a message for a ‘better future,’ adds that freedom and security must not be pitted against each other
By AFP
Actress Taraneh Alidoosti during a photo call for the film "Forushande" (The Salesman) at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, May 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
April 3, 2022, 4:22 pm
Iranian women in film slam ‘systemic’ sexual violence in industry
250 signatories call for a committee to enforce ‘serious legal consequences’ for alleged pattern of exploitation and abuse on film sets
By AFP
Ayatollah Yousef Saanei October 8, 2008. (Screengrab: YouTube)
September 13, 2020, 10:15 am
Pro-reform Iranian religious leader dies aged 83
Critic of hardline former president Ahmadinejad and supporter of pro-reform Iranian politicians, Ayatollah Yousef Saanei had been hospitalized with broken hip and wrist
By AP
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh pictured in 2012. (CC BY-sabzphoto, flickr)
March 6, 2019, 9:00 am
Iran rights group says lawyer convicted for defending women protesters
Court said to sentence Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is held in a Tehran jail, to unspecified term; activist previously served three years for her activism
By AP
Former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi in 2015 (CC-BY Meghdad Madadi/Tasnim/Wikimedia Commons)
August 27, 2018, 5:27 am
Ex-mayor of Tehran sentenced to year in jail for panning Iran’s actions in Syria
Gholamhossein Karbaschi told rally in Isfahan last year there must be better way to help Syrians than by ‘killing and pounding’
By ToI Staff
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami delivers a Friday sermon in Tehran in April 2014. (MEMRI TV)
January 2, 2018, 6:11 pm
Ex-Iranian president, seen by some as moderate, condemns violence and US
Group run by Mohammad Khatami says ‘opportunists and troublemakers have exploited the demonstrations to create problems’
By Agencies
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