iran

Iran: Results of the Presidential Election

Ebrahim Raisi, Chairman of the Supreme Court, won 17.8 million votes in Iran’s 13th presidential election, which took place on June 18, Jamal Orf, Chairman of the Election Commission, announced. The other three candidates standing for election received considerably fewer votes. But it was even before the official announcement of the results that other leaders […]

Forging a future with rather than against Iran

The rise of hardline President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has prompted someanalysts to counterintuitively suggest that it could pave the way for reduced regional tensions and potential talks on a rejiggered Middle Eastern security architecture but getting from A to B is likely to prove easier said than done. Hopes that a hardline endorsement of a return to the 2015 international agreement[Read More...]

How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election

Woman votes in Iranian election (Photo Credit: Reuters) It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June 19, the conservative Ebrahim Raisi was elected as the new President of […]

Iran’s Ahmadinejad Reveals Why Iran Doesn’t Need Nukes, Says World Should Know Truth About 9/11

By Ilya Tsukanov – Sputnik – 24.06.2021 The veteran politician, who served as Iran’s president between 2005 and 2013, and as Tehran mayor and Ardabil province governor before that, attempted to take part in both the 2017 and 2021 presidential elections, but was barred from doing so by Iran’s powerful Guardian Council. The world needs […]

Syrie : SitRep 106 avec Ayssar Midani (22 juin 2021)

Syrie : SitRep 106 avec Ayssar Midani (22 juin 2021). Au programme : – Rencontre Poutine / Biden – Élection du nouveau premier ministre israélien Naftali Bennett – Élection du nouveau président iranien Ebrahim Raïssi – Congrès pour la mise en œuvre de la réforme administrative en Syrie – Feuilleton « Ça c'est ma patrie » diffusé en Syrie Sources : Naftali Bennett, un improbable premier ministre issu de l'extrême droite religieuse israélienne (LeMonde) Iran. Qui est Ebrahim Raïssi, le nouveau (...)

Syrie : SitRep 106 avec Ayssar Midani (22 juin 2021)

Syrie : SitRep 106 avec Ayssar Midani (22 juin 2021). Au programme : – Rencontre Poutine / Biden – Élection du nouveau premier ministre israélien Naftali Bennett – Élection du nouveau président iranien Ebrahim Raïssi – Congrès pour la mise en œuvre de la réforme administrative en Syrie – Feuilleton « Ça c'est ma patrie » diffusé en Syrie Sources : Naftali Bennett, un improbable premier ministre issu de l'extrême droite religieuse israélienne (LeMonde) Iran. Qui est Ebrahim Raïssi, le nouveau (...)

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International

U.S. Regime Blocks Americans From Seeing News From Iran’s Government

Eric Zuesse On Tuesday, June 22nd, the U.S. regime blocked the Iranian Government’s TV news (equivalent to BBC in Britain and PBS in America), PressTV, so that, from now on, this is what Americans can see: https://www.presstv.com The U.S. regime has previously done this to other news-media that it dislikes. For example, this was done […]