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Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 [1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May. [2]Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf won 14% and Mostafa Pourmohammadi won less than 1% of the vote.
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 18 June 2021, the thirteenth since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Ebrahim Raisi, the then Chief Justice of Iran, was declared the winner in a highly controversial election. The election began with the mass disqualification of popular candidates by the Guardian Council, and broke ...
U.S. intelligence officials believe Iran is meddling in the 2024 election. "This includes the recently reported activities to compromise former President Trump’s campaign, which the IC ...
The president of Iran is the highest popularly elected official in the country. The most recent president, Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024, leaving the office vacant. Mohammad Mokhber is serving as acting president until Masoud Pezeshkian, who won the 2024 Iranian presidential election, takes over.
An Iranian woman casts her vote at a polling station during Iran's presidential election, in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. - Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images.
The Associated Press. July 5, 2024 at 4:54 PM. Iranians were voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country ...
Mohammad Mosaddegh[a](Persian: محمد مصدق, IPA:[mohæmˈmæd(-e)mosædˈdeɢ]ⓘ;[b]16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iranfrom 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. [4][5]He was a member of the Iranian parliamentfrom 1923, and served through a ...
The Parliament or Islamic Consultative Assembly ( Majlis-e Shura-ye Eslami) currently has 290 members, also elected for a four-year term in multi- and single-seat constituencies. Elections for the Assembly of Experts are held every eight years. All candidates have to be approved by the Guardian Council. See Politics of Iran for more details.