Iran has threatened an “obliterating war” if Israel launches a full-scale attack in Lebanon, as diplomats work to prevent tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which is backed by Tehran, from escalating into an all…
With 60 per cent of voters casting no ballot at all in the election, support was dismally low for candidates as Iran seeks a replacement to Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash in May
Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic's history, the AP…
Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
After Iran’s presidential election conducted on Friday failed to produce a definite winner by conclusion of counting on Saturday, a rerun has been scheduled for coming Friday, July 5. The top two candidates – Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed…
Iran’s “moderate” reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, once dismissed as a dark horse with little chance of winning the emergency election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, managed to become the frontrunner by about a million…
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Iran's interim presidential election is set for a runoff next week after reformist-backed Masoud Pezeshkian and hardliner Saeed Jalili emerged victorious but failed to clinch a majority…
There’s been only one runoff presidential election in Iran’s history: in 2005, when hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bested former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Iran warned on Saturday that all Resistance Fronts, a coalition of Iran and its regional allies, would battle Israel if it attacked Lebanon. The statement from Iran’s mission in New York comes amid fears of a larger regional conflict…
A moderate lawmaker will face the protege of Iran's supreme leader in a runoff presidential election on 5 July, after the interior ministry said on Saturday that no candidate secured an absolute majority in the first vote.
Iran has warned Israel against “full-scale military aggression” in Lebanon and said it would lead to an “obliterating war”, the Islamic republic’s United Nations mission said. “All options, including the full involvement of all Resistance…
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll…