Category: Politics
Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran’s Presidential Election Has Become an International Issue
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that “the upcoming presidential election in the country has become a major international issue.”
“All Think Tanks around the world are monitoring this prominent event and they have specific plans and objectives regarding the Iran election,” he said during a visit with families of Iran-Iraq war martyrs.
Will Iran Finally Intervene In Syria?
In an interview with Iran’sView, Dr. Mahdi Motaharnia, an Iranian Middle East Analyst said: the participants of Iranians in the upcoming election will provide Iran a better position, increasing the resistance of the country against “forming coalitions of 4+1 and 4+2 of Arab countries and Israel against Syria and Hezbollah”.
Senior Iranian Commander Warns About “Replacing Election With a Crisis”
“The US, Israel, Deviant Circle and the seditionists will challenge Iran’s election if they find a chance,” Deputy Chairman of Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri said in an exclusive interview with Iran’sView on Tuesday.
US’ Absence in UN Disarmament Conference Does Not Matter, Says Iranian Official
“Iran’s Mission in Geneva has an active and effective participation in all topics related to the disarmament initiatives around the world,” said Sayed Abbas Araghchi, Spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry in a press conference on Tuesday. “We will continue to this effective and strong presence and others’ pressures or absence is not a matter of us,” he said.
Jalili’s Candidacy Will Not Affect Iran’s Nuclear Talks: FM Spokesman
Sayed Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman and a member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team said Saeed Jalili’s run for president will not affect the process of nuclear talks with the group of P5+1 consisting five permenant member of security council and Germany.
Subsidies Are A Hot Election Issue In Iran
September 2010, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the first steps of a subsidy targeting plan through the state TV, he never have guessed that in less than 2 years, he would be inundated with censure.
Iran’s Elections: Vote Yes or No, Just Be Sure To Vote
The Iranian leadership has a talent of mobilizing people when it is needed. From the 8-year Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) when many Iranians under 16 (the legal age of military recruiting), falsified their birth certificates to volunteer in the “Holy Defense”, to the mass support of Iran’s nuclear program and high turnouts in lots of elections, the people’s presence has always emboldened the leadership’s authority in the international arena and increased its bargaining power.