TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been reduced to a small fraction in Iran's legislature, hugely outnumbered by the conservatives who once backed him but then turned against him after he was perceived to challenge the authority of top clerics, according to ...
(AP) — Partial results for an Iranian parliamentary reduced to a small fraction of the legislature, hugely outnumbered by the conservatives who once backed him but then turned against him after he was perceived to challenge the authority of top clerics. Iran has touted the turnout for Friday's ...
seen as a pointer for next year's presidential race, results showed on Saturday. The authorities hailed the outcome as a resounding triumph for as it prepares for nuclear negotiations with the West. , leading Friday's vote, but with the hardline Resistance Front of the Islamic Revolution close ...
The parliament has no direct control over major policy matters like Iran's nuclear program, but it can influence the run-up to the election of Of 65 seats for grabs in Friday's runoff election, Ahmadinejad's opponents won 20 while the president's supporters got only 8 seats. Independents won 11, ...
An Iranian woman casts her ballot for the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, May 4, 2012./ Iranian voters are casting ballots in parliamentary runoff elections Friday that could shape the make-up of the 2013 presidential election. Sixty-five seats are at stake ...
(AP) — Iranians lined up at polling stations Friday for a second round of parliamentary elections seen by the country's leaders as endorsement of their controversial nuclear development program, state media reported. already won an outright majority of seats of the new parliament in the first ...
Iranians voted on Friday in a run-off Khamenei's majority will mean a tougher final year for in his second and last term, and with reformists mostly sidelined and opposition leaders under house arrest, the vote is purely a test of the popularity of Khamenei's clerical establishment. Some 65 of ...
off to decide 65 seats still outstanding in its 290-member legislature following a March 2 first round. The vote, whose results are due out in the coming days, was seen as unlikely to change the political direction of the predominantly conservative chamber, though it could help lay the ground ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian voters headed to the polls on Friday for a second round of parliamentary elections that are likely to see conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad consolidate their hold on the legislature. State TV said that 130 candidates are competing in run-off elections ...
(AP) — Iranian voters headed to the polls on Friday for a second round of State TV said that 130 candidates are competing in run-off elections for 65 still-undecided seats in the 290-member parliament, including 25 of the 30 seats in the capital Tehran. of Ahmadinejad have already won outright a ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Friday began runoff elections for more than one-fifth of the seats in parliament, state TV reported. The report said 130 hopefuls were competing for 65 seats in 33 constituencies, including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Of 50 hopefuls in Tehran, 29 are from ...
Polls opened on Friday for Iran's run-off parliamentary election, state television reported, in a vote which will determine the upcoming assembly's balance. State television said polling stations in 33 constituencies, including the capital Tehran, opened their doors to voters at 8 a.m. (0430 ...
reported, in a vote which will determine the upcoming assembly's balance. in 33 constituencies, including the capital Tehran, opened their doors to voters at 8 a.m. (0430 GMT). They are due to close at 6 p.m. (1430 GMT), although officials have said the time could be extended. Some 65 seats from ...
Iran's state TV is reporting the country has begun The Friday report says 130 hopefuls will compete for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Tehran has 30 representatives in the 290-seat parliament. Five of them were decided in the first round. of ...
TEHRAN, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Iran will hold the second round of the ninth Majlis (parliament) elections on Friday. In the first round of the elections held on March 2, 225 out of the 290 seats were filled and the fate of 65 others will be decided in the run-off contests with 130 candidates. ...
Iran will hold a second round of parliamentary elections on Friday to decide 65 seats still outstanding in its 290-member legislature following a March 2 first round. Conservative MPs of various stripes easily dominated in the first round, meaning the parliament's political stance is unlikely to ...
An Iranian woman casts her ballot for the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. The country has begun runoff elections for more than one-fifth of parliamentary seats. Friday's report says 130 hopefuls will compete for 65 seats in 33 ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was among the first, who voted in the second round of parliamentary elections held in the country, IRINN reported. The second round of parliamentary elections began in Iran at 08:00 local time today, which will continue until 18:00. According to the ...
Iranian women walk past election posters in Tehran. Iran will hold a second round of parliamentary elections on Friday to decide 65 seats still outstanding in its 290-member legislature following the first round on March 2./ Iran will hold a second round of parliamentary elections on Friday to ...
The second round of Iran's parliamentary elections is due to kick off on Friday with 130 candidates from different political factions running for the remaining 65 seats of the 290-seat legislative body./ The runoff vote will be held in 33 constituencies in 18 provinces across the country. After ...
Om Fahad was sentenced to six months in prison last year for her social media videos (file image)/ Iraqi social media influencer Om Fahad has been shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, according to local media reports./ The attack happened in the capital's eastern Zayne neighbourhood on Friday ...
Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...
The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
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A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
A sign for the Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh's Market Square is pictured Feb. 8, 2016. Last week, the Newport Beach, California-based Mexican chain asked its U.S. and Canadian employees to temporarily select another protein option for their meals to preserve its supply of chicken. But the ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in ...