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6/17/2021 6:51:58 PM
The president sets domestic policy, which is important as Iran has faced years of crushing sanctions from Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran's nuclear deal
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6/17/2021 2:39:07 PM
On the eve of Iran's presidential election, expected to hand victory to the ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the candidate-vetting Guardian Council insisted Thursday that "the political contest is serious"
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
6/17/2021 12:42:00 PM
Its Arab neighbours seem to be far less interested in the presidential elections in Iran, although many say they may embolden the country’s extremists, writes Salah Nasrawi
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6/16/2021 11:56:58 AM
The pain of Trump's ramped-up sanctions, which sparked a currency collapse, galloping inflation and spiralling job losses, is the unifying electoral theme
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6/16/2021 10:43:13 AM
According to the few polls available, voter abstention could exceed the record of 57 percent recorded in parliamentary elections last year
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6/15/2021 9:12:22 PM
In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Hemmati said he'd even be willing to possibly meet with US President Joe Biden if he wins
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International
6/15/2021 6:58:13 PM
Officials at Homeland Security and the Justice Department, as well as Republican election leaders across the country, repeatedly said there was no pervasive fraud
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Opinion
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6/10/2021 1:09:00 PM
Campaigning in this month’s presidential elections in Iran has confirmed the prevalence of economic and social concerns over religious ideology in the country
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Region
6/10/2021 12:10:37 PM
Those living in the Islamic Republic repeatedly point to the economy as the major issue facing it ahead of its June 18 presidential election
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Region
6/8/2021 7:47:22 PM
The looming June 18 election will see voters pick a candidate to replace Rouhani, who is term limited from running again
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5/28/2021 6:16:14 PM
The vote comes amid widespread discontent over a deep economic and social crisis, and after the violent repression of waves of protests in the winter of 2017-18 and in 2019
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5/27/2021 10:55:30 PM
The vote took place amid the lowest levels of violence since the war erupted in 2011 -- but with the economy in free fall
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5/26/2021 11:10:45 AM
The Guardian Council approved only seven of some 590 people who registered with the panel of clerics and jurists overseen by Khamenei
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/25/2021 9:05:46 PM
This week’s presidential elections in Syria will do nothing to help solve the ongoing crisis in the country, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus
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5/23/2021 7:06:57 PM
Close to 600 hopefuls -- including 40 women -- have registered to be candidates to succeed moderate President Hassan Rouhani, who is constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term
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5/20/2021 1:17:15 PM
Lebanese army soldiers stood guard as Syrian citizens who live in Lebanon queued outside their embassy in Yarze, east of Beirut, to cast their ballots
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5/12/2021 3:53:58 PM
The populist ex-president had also put his name forward for the 2017 presidential election, against the advice of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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5/11/2021 7:00:55 PM
Whoever wins the June 18 vote will take over from Rouhani, a relative moderate within the Islamic Republic whose two four-year terms began with Iran reaching the nuclear deal
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Region
5/8/2021 7:07:56 PM
Saeed Mohammad, 53, headed the Guards' construction and engineering arm for over two years before announcing his resignation in early March to run in the poll.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/6/2021 10:07:00 AM
Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court announced the first candidates for the country’s upcoming presidential elections last week
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