Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech during a parade on the occasion of the country's Army Day, on April 18, 2017, in Tehran (AFP Photo/ATTA KENARE)/ Tehran (AFP) - Former Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was barred from running in next month's election Thursday while President ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani registers to run for a second four-year term in the May election, in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2017. President.ir/Handout via/ Campaigning officially started on Friday for Iran's May presidential election, pitting pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani against ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani registers to run for a second four-year term in the May election, in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2017. President.ir/Handout via/ FILE PHOTO: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks during a news conference at the end of his visit to Cairo, Egypt February 7, 2013./ ...
In this Friday, April 14, 2017 file photo, Iranian cleric Ebrahim Raisi looks at media while registering his candidacy for the May 19 presidential elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran. Over 1,600 people registered to run. Under Iranian law, there's no fee for registering. Hopefuls ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Mr Rouhani was elected by a landslide in 2013, on a platform of ending the country's diplomatic isolation Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and leading hardliner Ebrahim Raisi have both ...
Iranian state media says the Guardian Council has vetted candidates for next month's presidential election and will forward the final list to the Interior Ministry. The IRNA news agency quoted Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei as saying the list will be sent on Thursday to the ...
The main contenders for Iran's upcoming presidential elections: (top L-R) Head of the Islamic Coalition Party’s Central Council and former Minister of Culture, Mostafa Mirsalim on April 11, 2017, Iranian Hamid Baghaie, former vice president under Ahmadinejad, giving a press conference in Tehran ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi were both approved to run in May's presidential election by a government vetting body, while former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was disqualified, state media reported. The approval of Rouhani, a moderate, and Raisi, a political ...
President Hassan Rouhani, 5 challengers approved by cleric-dominated panel/ Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives an interview to The Associated Press at his office in Tehran earlier this month. Iranian state TV said Thursday that the body charged with vetting candidates has disqualified ...
An Iranian panel charged with vetting candidates approved the country's incumbent president and five challengers but disqualified former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running in next month's presidential election, state television reported Thursday. The decision by the Guardian ...
The Iranian Interior Ministry has announced the final list of eligible candidates for the upcoming presidential vote./ The Iranian Interior Ministry has released the final list of candidates qualified to run in the forthcoming presidential election. Iran’s Interior Ministry on Thursday night ...
a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the A process server working for Trump's lawyers said he approached Daniels with papers demanding information related to a documentary recently released about her life ...
Tourists stranded in Dubai's major airports say they are "desperate for food" and are running low on water as floods cause disruption and chaos in one of the world's busiest transport hubs./ Passengers who have spoken to the BBC say they have been waiting for hours at Dubai's two major ...
Uber is helping investigators look into an account that sent a driver to the Ohio home where an 81-year-old man allegedly shot the woman to death because he erroneously believed she was part of a scam that targeted him, the ride-hailing company said Wednesday. The March 25 shooting death of ...
Hugh Grant arrives at the premiere of "Wonka" on Dec. 10, 2023, at Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Calif. Hugh Grant says he received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into ...
Iran's brazen attack directly targeting Israel on Saturday means that the one thing President Biden most feared and desperately sought to avert in the wake of the 7 October Hamas attack has happened - an escalation of the conflict to the wider region./ For the US president, the tightrope he was ...
Police have released a grainy image taken from surveillance footage of a man believed to be responsible for a violent sexual assault on a woman who was sitting in her car outside of a restaurant in Pasadena on Saturday. The terrifying ordeal unfolded at around 8:40 p.m. on Sierra Madre Villa ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media, March 7, 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. DeSantis admits the book challenge law he enacted two years ago is causing problems for school districts. He signed a bill Tuesday, April 16, 2024, that adjusts the law that made ...
The Shah of Iran with his third wife, Empress Farah Diba, and their son Crown Prince Reza./ From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah./ On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country./ The government was replaced with an Islamic republic, which ...
It wasn't many days ago that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under enormous pressure./ After seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed by the Israeli army in Gaza on 1 April, US President Joe Biden seemed finally to lose patience with his troublesome ally./ On the ...
Play video Israel Vows Response to Iran Attack from BBC News/ Stabbed Iranian journalist says UK should proscribe Iran's IRGC/ Israel urges new sanctions on Iran's missile programme/ As everyone waits to see how Israel responds militarily to Iran, it is also acting diplomatically. Israel looks ...