Al-Monitor - There are lots of problems in the country, some of which are due to sanctions and some are due to mismanagement, Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted in an address to loyalists in the capital Tehran Feb. 5. Despite all that, people will come to the battlefield on election day, because it is about the dignity of the establishment ...

Press TV - Iran is less than a month away from holding the legislative elections to appoint lawmakers to its 11th Majlis (Parliament) since the countrys 1979 Islamic Revolution. Here are some details: The elections, which come every four years, are to go underway on February 21. A second round could take place in the second month of the next ...

MNA Mostafa Kavakebian, the secretary-general of Mardomsalari party (Democracy Party), underlined the necessity of massive participation of people in the upcoming parliamentary elections as one of the principal views of the reformist movement. Massive turnout and constant participation of people in the elections have always been among the top priorities ...

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: As Iran's Reformists map their strategy for the February 2020 election, their camp is struggling to improve its public image, given its dismal record in parliament. During the past two years, public criticism of Reformist parliamentarians has grown, as many are accused of not keeping their promises to constituents....

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Reports have emerged in Iran that mainly Reformist parliamentarians are attempting to revise the countrys constitution. Senior pro-reform parliament member Mostafa Kavakebian said May 8, We are preparing a bill under the name of the Third Republic.'" Moderate conservative Ezzatollah Yousefian Molla said May 27 that ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday certainly, he will not be a candidate in Irans 2021 presidential elections. He made the remarks in talks with Iraqs al-Furat outlet earlier and published simultaneously with his arrival in Baghdad. Asked about his proximity with reformists and his candidacy in presidential elections,...

Al-Monitor - After 10 years as head of one of the most important institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani will step down as chief of the judiciary and be replaced by Ebrahim Raisi. Larijani will join other recent government semi-retirees as a member of the Expediency Council, an institution designed to resolve differences ...

Al-Monitor - In a country where politics has been tightly entangled with people's daily lives for decades, it is no surprise to see an incessant flow of reactions to a political crisis even if it is happening in a spot as far away as Latin America. Iranians have in recent days kept a close eye on the fast-paced developments in Venezuela, a nation ...

Al-Manitor |Rohollah Faghihi: Iran's next elections are to be held in 2020 and 2021, but it has already preoccupied Reformists' minds about whether to participate or boycott the ballot box as they are facing an unprecedented threat of losing their political capital. Moderate Hassan Rouhani won the 2013 and 2017 presidential elections after forming ...

Iranian Diplomacy- The key question looming around during the first term of Hassan Rouhanis presidency, how long will Reformists and Moderates sustain their alliance?, has now turned into a more serious subject of pondering: Is the alliance between Reformists and Rouhani over? The change in question betrays a downgrade in relations between the president ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Iran's air pollution crisis, whichclaimed more than 4,800 lives in 2016, has become yet another area for scoringpolitical pointsfor both the Reformists and the Principlists, much like almost everything else in Iran. Ever since the Reformists took over the presidency and the capital city, they no longer criticize the administration ...

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: On June 14, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke of support for a peaceful transition of government in Iran, a controversial statement interpreted in Tehran as meaning that US policy is reverting to regime change. Prominent Reformist figures, including those who have been imprisoned, protested the apparent new ...