TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Tajikistan's President Imomali Rahmon won a new seven-year term in Wednesday's election, receiving 83.1 percent of the vote after all ballots were counted, according to the country's Central Election Commission (CEC). Rahmon, 61, has been at the helm of the poorest ex-Soviet nation since 1992. He ran against five little-known and ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Polling opened in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan in a presidential election in which incumbent Emomali Rahmon is set to win a new seven-year term. Voters headed to polling stations on Wednesday morning in the capital Dushanbe. The five candidates standing against Rahmon are virtual unknowns even inside the country,...