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2024 Iranian presidential election. 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 ...
See detainees for notable cases. Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini ( Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but were said to have "dwindled" [ 15 ] or "died down" [ 16 ] by spring of 2023. As of ...
Unemployment, widespread poverty and inflation. [ 1] The 2021-2022 Iranian protests erupted on 15 July 2021 to protest the water shortages and crisis, but were quickly met with police violence and brutality. "Bloody Aban", November 2021 saw further protests due to water shortages but various other protests and strikes also took place due to the ...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (right) meets Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (left) at the president's office in Tehran, Iran, on July 30, 2024.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said a short-range projectile was behind the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh and accused the United States of supporting the attack which it blamed on ...
The Associated Press. April 17, 2024 at 1:43 PM. Iran’s president has warned that the “tiniest invasion” by Israel would bring a “massive and harsh” response, as the region braces for ...
Politics of Iran. 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 ...
Iran’s newly-elected president reappointed a U.S.-educated official who came under United Nations sanctions 16 years ago as head of the country’s nuclear department, state TV reported Saturday.