MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, as long as ballot boxes and elections exist, the Islamic Republic will remain. Speaking in a cabinet session on Wednesday, Rouhani pointed to the anniversary of the Constitutional Revolution, saying that Iran has been the pioneer of democracy in the region. We should be aware that as long as we respect ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi wrote in his tweeter on Thursday that tomorrow (parliamentary election day) will be regarded as a national day for Iran as well as all Iranians. In his tweet, he also released photos of President Hassan Rouhani, Mohammad Javad Zarif and Lieutenant General Soleimani and Ali Larijani and Judiciary chief ...

IRNA The swearing-in ceremony of Iran's re-elected President Hassan Rouhani is to be held on August 5 in the Parliament (Majlis), a member of the presiding board of the legislative body said. Gholamreza Kateb told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that in the ceremony, which is to be held from 5 pm to 8 pm local time (12:30 to 15:30 pm GMT),...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to swear in as 12th president of Islamic Republic on August 5, 2017, Majlis(parliament) public relations office announced. The official inauguration ceremony for President Rouhani will be held in Majlis and he will perform the oath of office beside Sadeq Larijani, head of Judiciary System of Iran. Before ...

IRNA Tehrans substitute Friday prayers leader said those who triggered political unrest after the 2009 presidential elections should be deterred from having any role in the government. Addressing thousands of worshipers in his second sermon, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani said these people should be identified and there is no room for them ...

IRNA -- Electoral District Executive and Supervisory Committees which oversee elections have officially validated the results of May 19 city council election in capital, Tehran, senior official declared. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Alireza Rahimi, the director of the supreme council for overseeing Tehran province's council election said on Sunday ...

Press TV - Iran's President Hassan Rouhanisays the Iranian nation haschosen the path of interaction with the rest of the world away from violence and extremism. The Iranian president made the remarks in a televised speech on Saturday following his landslide election victory and winning a second term in office through presidential polls held ...

IRNA Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that voting for presidential and local elections in Iran has been extended for the third time stressing that polling will definitely end at 12pm local time (7:30pm GMT). He said that based on the elections law, polling time can only be extended by the midnight. The decision was made due to unprecedented ...

IRNA Interior Ministry senior official on Wednesday confirmed that it has received the letter of resignation of presidential election candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. Secretary of the Interior Ministry's State Elections Committee Ali Pourali Motlaq made the remarks in an interview with IRNA. Other presidential candidates have not already sent ...

Tasnim Spokesman for Irans Guardian Council said the influential body, which is in charge of supervising elections, is not of the same mind with the Interior Ministry about its decision not to publicize the ballot counts gradually after conclusion of Fridays presidential election. The Guardian Council recommends that the reports and results ...

Tasnim Eshaq Jahangiri, a candidate in Irans presidential election who has been campaigning in support of President Hassan Rouhani, called on the other rivals to offer practical and realistic plans for combating unemployment rather than resorting to words. Speaking at a television talk show on Monday night, First Vice-President Jahangiri said ...

IRNA Some 66.7 percent of respondents to a survey carried out by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on May 7-8 said they will participate in Irans May 19 presidential elections. The survey was carried out randomly asking 6,089 persons from 31 provinces to fill answer sheets. A sum of 16.2 percent of the respondents said they have not decided ...

AP - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has said that Friday's presidential election will place the country at a critical juncture, and its people must choose between peace or tension. Speaking Saturday to tens of thousands of his supporters at Tehran's Azadi Stadium, his biggest campaign rally thus far, Rouhani said, "We are at the edge of a great historical ...

IRNA The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in London announced here that in order to facilitate the right of political participation of Iranian nationals in Iran's 12th Presidential Elections, it has scheduled to hold this election in London and six other major cities of the UK on May 19, 2017 concurrent with the election in Iran. The Iranian ...

Reuters - Iran's president must get a second term to secure the economic benefits that he promised would result from a diplomatic thaw with the West, Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar said ahead of a May 19 election.   In a rare interview with a trio of foreign reporters at an EU-Iran business forum on Sunday, Ebtekar, one of Iran's 12 vice ...

MNA Bahram Ghasemi said Iran is hopeful of balloting Iranians residing in Canada for presidential elections although Tehran and Ottawa lack diplomatic relations. FM Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi reported on serious efforts ofMinistry of Foreign Affairs to hold the countrys presidential elections in Canada and the US by deploying ballot boxed to the ...

MNA President Rouhani vowed to preserve the Iran's nuclear deal during his second term, adding his administration will still have a counterplan ready if the other side violates the agreement. Speaking to IRIB Monday night, incumbent President Hassan Rouhani discussed his policies for his second run in the office, saying my foreign policy will ...

Press TV - A candidate in the forthcoming Irans presidential election says voting is not a matter of formality in the countrybut is, in fact,very real. Today, the country needs a managerthat has managerial experience, Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said in a state radio interview on Monday. He said elections must be held free from "customary ...

IRNA The second live debate of presidentioal election candidates focusing on political and cultural issues is scheduled to be held on Friday, May 5, Head of Electoral Campaign Supervision Committee said. Ehsan Ghazizadeh-Hashemi made the remarks after the Sunday meeting of Electoral Campaign Supervision Committee of the 12th presidential election ...

Press TV - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says the United States is under an illusion if it assumes that it can influence the outcome ofthe forthcoming presidential election in Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic pursues a firmly-established and principled approach towardthe US. If the Americans think that they can ...