Preliminary results indicate that reformists and moderate politicians are leading in Iran's second round of parliamentary elections, Iranian media reported on April 30. Sixty-eight undecided seats in the 290-seat legislature were up for grabs in vote that took place on April 29. Fars news agency ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, in this March 26, 2016 file photo./ Moderate candidates allied to President Hassan Rouhani came out strongest in a second round of parliamentary elections in Iran, unofficial results showed on Saturday, but ...
TEHRAN, April 30 (Xinhua) -- According to the preliminary media reports from 's second round of parliamentary elections, reformists have won majority of the remaining seats for the legislative body. Out of the 69 vacant seats for the run-off stage, the reformist candidates have won at least 35 ...
Iranians headed to the polls Friday for the final round of an election cycle that has already seen moderate and reform candidates make a strong showing./ An Iranian woman attends a polling station to vote for parliamentary runoff elections at the city of Qods, Iran, about 12 miles west of the ...
Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli says results from Iran's second round of parliamentary elections will be announced on May 1. He made the statement on Iranian state television as Iranians went to the polls on April 29. He said that the elections will decide 68 undecided seats in ...
Iran's parliamentary runoff elections got underway Friday, state media reported, a key vote that is expected to decide exactly how much power moderate forces backing President Hassan Rouhani will have in the next legislature. The balloting is for the remaining 68 positions in the 290-seat ...
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 ...
TEHRAN, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The second round of the 10th Majlis (parliament) elections in Iran concluded on Friday after three hours of extended voting time to 21:00 local time (1630 GMT). In the first round of the elections, 221 out of the 290 seats were filled and the fate of 69 others will ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 26, 2016./ Iranians started voting on Friday for a second round of parliamentary elections for 68 seats of the 290-seat assembly, state TV reported. "The voters will elect 68 lawmakers in constituencies ...
Determining which political camp -- reformists and moderates, independents, or hard-liners and conservatives -- or combination of camps holds a parliamentary majority is difficult because Iran lacks rigid party affiliations and some independent candidates are claimed by more than one bloc./ ...
Iranian journalists follow the country's parliamentary runoff elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 29, 2016./ TEHRAN: Reformist and moderate politicians allied with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani won most seats in second round parliamentary elections, local media ...
Iranians started voting Friday in second round elections for almost a quarter of parliament’s seats, the latest political showdown between reformists and conservatives seeking to influence the country’s future. Polling stations opened at 8am (0330 GMT) for the ballot which is taking place in 21 ...
Iran has started counting ballots cast in the second round of legislative elections as voting draws to a close in nearly all of the 21 provinces across the country, Press TV reported. Mohammad Hossein Moqisimi, the head of Interior Ministry's Election Committee, said the counting process started ...
Iran's fractious political camps clash on April 29 in runoff votes to finalize the makeup of parliament two months after a split result dealt a blow to hard-liners but failed to produce a majority. There are reasons to watch the voting again this time around, even if the contests make less of an ...
An Iranian woman casts her ballot to vote in the second round of parliamentary elections at a polling station in the town of Robat Karim, some 40 kms southwest of the capital Tehran, on April 29, 2016. (AFP)/ Iranians lined up outside polling stations on Friday to vote in a second round of ...
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Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify has found./ Damage to a major supplies depot has also severely disrupted repairs./ The lack of clean water and flows of untreated ...
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