Iran's former reformist President Mohammad Khatami endorsed the incumbent, Hassan Rouhani and called on voters to re-elect him for a second term in May 19 presidential elections.
The United States has condemned Iran's imprisonment of leaders of the Baha'i religious minority and called on Tehran to release them and other prisoners of conscience.
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Iran’s border with Turkmenistan has killed two people, injured hundreds, and caused widespread damage.
The representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has once again denied any interference by the IRGC in Iran’s upcoming May 19 elections.
Apparently unhappy with their muscle-flexing in live TV debates, the three main contenders of the current presidential election in Iran have declared themselves ready for a debate duel.
Mawlana (Molavi) Abdol-Hamid, the famous Sunni cleric in Iran, has declared that most Sunnis are inclined to vote for the incumbent president, Hassan Rouhani, in the upcoming May 19 election, despite their complaints about his government.
Voicing its condemnation of Iranian authorities for keeping human rights activist and journalist Hangameh Shahidi behind bars, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has appealed for her unconditional release.
On May 12, the Iranian “Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan” announced in a statement that its founder, Mohammad Sedigh Kaboudvand, was released from the Evin prison in Tehran after serving his sentence of 10 years.
The head of the Civilian and Revolutionary Courts in the north-eastern city of Gorgan has confirmed the arrest of 60 girls and boys at a “night party.”
The U.S. national intelligence director says the security situation in Afghanistan will “almost certainly” continue to “deteriorate” over the next 18 months.
Former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that he is not supporting any of the six presidential candidates.
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah of Iran, has accused the country’s regime of attempting to maintain its tyranny through fraud disguised as the presidential election.
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