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A Nuclear Iran: Challenges and Responses
Through command of key institutions such as the Revolutionary Guards and the Guardian Council, Iran’s reactionary clerics have enormous influence on national security planning. A fundamental ...
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Who will be Iran’s next (and last) supreme leader?
As Supreme Leader, Khamenei has endorsed thousands of arrests and arbitrary executions of dissidents at home and abroad. He ...
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Iran: Who are the six men running for president?
DW gives you an overview of the six candidates approved by the country's powerful Guardian Council.Iran's Interior Ministry has released the final list of candidates for the presidential election ...
Iran’s president has died in office. Here’s what happens next
Members of the Assembly itself are, however, pre-vetted by Iran’s Guardian Council, a powerful 12-member body charged with ...
Iran picks new supreme leader: The impact on Israel, nukes and all-out war
Iran’s Guardian Council’s decision this week to disqualify virtually all “pragmatists,” including former president Hassan ...
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Iran's presidential election: Who the candidates are
He fought in the Iran-Iraq war and ... He was disqualified by the Guardian Council in 2013 and 2017.
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Iran's Rouhani takes on powerful Guardian Council as elections approach
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
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Iran protests: Who are the opposition in the country?
In the 2016 parliamentary elections, nearly half of the candidates were disqualified by Iran's Guardian Council, which vets them for their commitment to Iran's Islamic system. And for this year's ...
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Iran’s Guardian Council announces presidential candidate list
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
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Iran presidential election: Hardliners dominate approved candidates list
Iran's Guardian Council has approved seven mostly hard-line candidates for next month's presidential election and barred several prominent contenders. Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi will now be ...
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Iran's first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, appointed acting president after crash
Mokhber has been a member of Iran’s Expediency Council since 2022. The council advises the supreme leader, as well as settles disputes between parliament and the Guardian Council, Iran’s ...
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Iran's Guardian Council Allows 6 Candidates to Seek Presidency, While Barring Ahmadinejad
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's Guardian Council on Sunday approved the country's hard-line speaker of parliament and five others to run in the country's June 28 presidential election ...