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The president of Iran is usually elected every four years by a "direct vote of the people", as set out by Article 114 of the Iranian Constitution, which means that a presidential election should have taken place on or before 18 June 2025, but due to the death of the president, it will be held earlier.
Telegram in Iran. The Telegram instant messaging service has had more than 50 million users in Iran. [1] Following the disruptions caused by the Iranian government in the Viber [2] [3] and Line services, the Iranian people were attracted to Telegram. [4] Security was the most important reason that led to its popularity.
The Reform Front also described the vote as "meaningless, non-competitive and ineffective", while former President Mohammad Khatami said that Iran was "very far from free and competitive elections". In West Azerbaijan province, 50 activists were arrested for calling for a boycott of the election on social media.
Because the old way of life was quashed by the regime, many Iranian Jews say they relate more to Israel and support its fight against Hamas and, by extension, Iran, the militant group’s key ...
Iran has launched a major new crackdown on women defying the country’s strict dress code, deploying large numbers of police to enforce laws requiring women to wear headscarves in public ...
Operation True Promise 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel Part of the 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war, and spillover of the Israel–Hamas war Iranian missiles seen from near the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem Type Missile strike, loitering munitions strike Locations Weapons launched from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen Commanded by ...
The 2024 Iranian Assembly of Experts election were held on 1 March 2024, concurrently with the elections of the Islamic Consultative Majlis.Directly elected by the public from a list of candidates vetted by the Guardian Council, the Assembly of Experts is made up of 88 clerics with the responsibility of supervising the Supreme Leader and selecting a new one.
"Iranian-American" is sometimes used interchangeably with "Persian-American", partly due to the fact that, in the Western world, Iran was known as "Persia". On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the endonym of the country used since the Sasanian Empire, in formal correspondence. Since then the ...