At least 33 Iranian MPs were told on Tuesday that their candidacies had not been approved even though they currently serve in the parliament. Many reformist MPs and even some conservatives are among those barred from running in the March vote, which the country's intelligence minister has described as "the most sensitive elections" since the 1979 ...

Mostafa Mohammad Najjar,Irans Interior Ministersays more than 48 million people are eligible to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections on March 2. He told reporters that 48,288,799 people are qualified to cast their ballots in the ninth parliamentaryelections. He went on to say that over 5,400 had registered to contest 290 parliamentary ...