Iranian Runoff Elections Begin; Parliament's Makeup At Stake
Iranians started voting in a second round of parliamentary elections on April 29 that will determine the makeup of Tehran's parliament, where no party currently holds a majority. Nearly 17 million are eligible to vote, and the first results will be known in the evening. Sixty-eight of the assembly's 290 seats are at play. President Hassan Rohani's moderate and centrist allies made big gains in the first round of elections on February 26, but they failed to win a majority. Rohani's success in the February elections was attributed in part to ...
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