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Iran bars candidates for presidential election
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities on Tuesday barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 election, along with a protg of the current president, leaving mainly hardliners left to contest the ...
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Iran Bars Two Contenders From Presidential Race
Two well-known candidates who had submitted their registration papers for Iran’s June presidential election won’t be on the ballot. That includes former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s former Chief of Staff, Rahim Mashai. Iranian journalist Shirin Jafaari says the decision might mean that some Iranians stay away from the ...
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Disqualification Of Rafsanjani Paves Way For Khamenei To Install Loyalist
The decision by Iran’s powerful Guardians Council to bar former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in next month's presidential election paves the way for the country’s establishment to bring a loyalist to power. It also deals another blow to the credibility of the June 14 poll, analysts say. With his potential appeal to both reformists and conservatives, ...
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Former President Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad ally barred from Iran election
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 election, along with a protege of the current president, leaving mainly hardliners left to contest the vote. Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close aide to current ...
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Iran bans Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in presidential election
Two key challengers in the race to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran have been banned from taking part in next month's elections, it emerged on Tuesday ...
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Iran Bars Mashaei and Rafsanjani as Candidates
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Reformist blocked from running for Iranian presidency
The country's former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was expected to win votes from the centre ground and among Iran's moderates, was blocked along 678 other candidates who had initially put their names forward. Among the others to be told that they cannot stand is Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei - an ally of the current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is barred from taking part in ...
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Irans presidential election clearing the path
Iran 's presidential election in 2009 still hangs heavily over the country. Even though the leaders of the Green movement are today under house arrest, and its membership divided over whether to boycott the presidential elections next month, much of what is happening is a result of the lessons the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, learned then. In preparation for the announcement of ...
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Iran candidate list for presidential race
COMBO - This combination of eight pictures shows eight candidates approved Tuesday, May 21, 2013 for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits, clockwise from left: Mohammad Gharazi, Mohsen Rezaei, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, Saeed Jalili, Ali Akbar Velayati, and Hasan Rowhani, taken between May 9 ...
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Report Top politicians banned from Iranian election
DUBAI - Iranian authorities have barred two prominent politicians from running for president, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, leaving the June 14 election to be contested between mostly hardline conservatives loyal to the country's supreme leader.Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, failed to make it ...
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Top figures barred from Irans presidential election
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a close confidant of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been barred from running in next month's presidential election by the Guardian Council. (Ebrahim Noroozi/Associated ...
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UANI Calls on Facebook to Suspend Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s Account as Iranian Election Approaches
United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) launched its Social Media Campaign, by calling on Facebook, Inc. to suspend the account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
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Iranian state TV ex-President Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad aide rejected from presidential ballot
Nampa Christian's Carli Shaul has signed to compete in track and field at Northwest Nazarene, NCHS announced. Shaul finished third in the long jump (16 feet, 2 inches) and fourth in the triple jump ( 33-8.5) at this year's 2A state ...
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Exclusive Irans frontrunner for president speaks of his life battling US power
Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, has declared his candidacy for the June 14 presidential election. The forever revolutionary is fiercely loyal to hardliner Ayatollah Ali ...
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Iran Employs Thousands Of Sea Mines
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Iran has stockpiled thousands of mines to shut down theStrait of Hormuz. Gulf security sources said Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hasoverseen the production of a range of mines to stop shipping in the Gulf.They said IRGC has stockpiled thousands of mine that could be dumped intothe Strait of Hormuz within ...
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Iranians joining Hezbollah in Qusayr Syria battle US
Iranians are working alongside Hezbollah fighters to back Syrian troops battling to retake the rebel stronghold of Qusayr amid fears of a civilian massacre, a US official said Tuesday. ';It is the most visible effort we have seen by Hezbollah to engage directly in the fighting in Syria as a foreign ...
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Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Consensus
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks in Oman on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange an internationally-sponsored Syrian peace ...
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Irans moderate ex-president Rafsanjani barred from standing for elections
TEHRAN // Iran's electoral watchdog has barred moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from standing in a June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry said yesterday. Eight candidates won approval to stand - five conservatives close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as two moderate conservatives and a reformist. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close but ...
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Reports Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Ally Barred From Iran Election
Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has entered the race for the country's presidency. The move challenges plans by the Iranian establishment to ensure a loyalist wins next month's ...
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Iran decreases medicine imports by 54
(MENAFN) Iran's total medicine imports were USD34.2 million during the first month of its calendar year, down 54.7 percent on yearly basis, reported Tehran Times citing ISNA.In terms of weight, medicine imports fell by 18.6 percent, to 549.7 tons in the period.On the other hand, the total medicine exports were USD1.2 million, weighing 101.6 tons.Meanwhile, the country itself is producing 97 ...
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Saudi Arabia arrests more ‘Iran spy ring’ suspects
Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 more suspects in what it says is a spy ring linked to Iran, state media report. Those detained include eight Saudis, a Turk, and a Lebanese citizen. Eighteen people were arrested in the same case in ...
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47 Dossiers Presented to UNESCO
Translated by Leila Imani The dossiers of 26 and 21 cultural and natural heritages have been presented to UNESCO respectively, said director of Parseh and Pasargad Foundation. Mohammad Hassan Talebian added that Iran joined the Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritages in 1975. He noted that 190 countries are members of World Heritage Committee, 157 of which have ...
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Sony Classics Wins Rights to ‘The Past’
'Romain Rolland the Man and His Work', a book written by Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig, has been translated into Persian by Mohammad Majlesi. The book has been released by 'Donya-e No' Publications in 335 pages. Rolland was a French novelist, dramatist, essayist, mystic, and pacifist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. He had a strong sense of social ...
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Poll Most Iranians Will Vote
A car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad on Monday, killing eight people, Iraqi police and a local official said. The explosion also wounded at least 15 people, they said, AFP reported. The pilgrims were on their way to a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was bombed in February 2006, unleashing a wave of sectarian bloodletting in which tens of thousands of people ...
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Ahmadinejad Inaugurates Coke-Producing Plant Projects
Ahmadinejad Inaugurates Coke-Producing Plant, Projects President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a coke-producing plant in the southeastern province of Kerman on Tuesday. The construction of Kerman's Kouhbanan coke-producing plant cost EUR5mln plus $12 million (300 billion rials), Fars News Agency reported. The annual output of Kouhbanan plant is 500,000 tons of coke for use in ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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