Iran sets presidential election for May 2017
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 26, 2016./ Iran will hold its next presidential election in May 2017, state news agencies said on Wednesday, a vote in which moderate President Hassan Rouhani may seek a second term to push ahead with reforms resisted by powerful hardliners. The Guardian Council, a body of Shi'ite Muslim clerics and jurists that oversees elections, said in a letter to the ministry that it had agreed on a date of May 19 proposed by the ministry, according to ...
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