Tehran, 24 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Voting has ended in Iran's presidential runoff election, after a series of extensions. An Interior ministry spokesman confirmed polls closed at 2300 local time.
Voting today in Iran 24 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Iran's Interior Ministry has extended voting by two hours in the country's presidential runoff election, Radio Farda reported.
Prague, 24 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Iranians began voting today in the country's first presidential runoff since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranians are choosing their future president between two candidates -- former President Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and Tehran Mayor Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The vote is expected to be tight. Election results are expected tomorrow.
Voting in Iran during the 17 June first round (file photo) 24 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Polls have opened in Iran in the first presidential runoff to be held since the republic's Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Ahmadinejad (pictured) is considered more hard-line than Rafsanjani In the second round of Iran's presidential election on 24 June, voters must choose between the very right-wing Mahmud Ahmadinejad --> http://www.rferl.org/specials/iranelections/bios/Ahmadinejad.asp and the more cautious former President Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, --> http://www.rferl.org/specials/iranelections/bios/Hashemi-Rafsanjani.asp who heads the Expediency Council, a key arbitrating body.
Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani voting on 17 June Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani will compete in Iran's presidential runoff tomorrow against the hard-line mayor of Tehran, Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Rafsanjani is considered a pragmatic conservative. He has held a number of top political posts since the establishment of the Islamic Republic -- commander in Iran's armed forces, speaker of parliament, and president. As RFE/RL reports, Rafsanjani is urging Iranians to vote against "extremism" by supporting him.
23 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Iran's official news agency says 104 cases of alleged violations during Iran's presidential election on 17 June are being reviewed and that suspects were detained in 26 of the cases.
Mustafa Moin (file photo) Close attention to ethnic interests during the current presidential campaign paid off for at least one candidate during the 17 June first-round voting. Mustafa Moin, despite ending up in fifth place overall, topped the list in a province predominantly inhabited by a religious minority. Another candidate, Mohsen Mehralizadeh, won almost all the provinces where members of his ethnic minority predominate. But an examination of provincial voting patterns reveals that these factors ultimately did not play a decisive role in the outcome.
Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the hard-line mayor of Tehran, is one of the two candidates competing in the second round of Iran’s presidential election on 24 June. His supporters praise him for living a simple life and being a man of the people with good management skills. They also say he is a true follower of Islamic values. But his opponents call him a "fascist “ who favors segregation of the sexes in public and say that his presidency would stop the reform process.
22 June 2005 (RFE/RL) --More than 80 foreign ministers and officials are due in Brussels today at a conference aimed at showing solidarity with violence-wracked Iraq and to hear Baghdad's plans for rebuilding it
Iran's Interior Ministry is warning about possible fraud ahead of the 24 June presidential runoff. The warning follows last night's validation of the vote in the 17 June first round by Iran's powerful Guardians Council. That conservative election watchdog dismissed allegations of vote rigging, clearing the way for the runoff to go ahead. Iranians will choose between pragmatic former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and ultraconservative Tehran Mayor Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Several pro-reform groups and personalities are urging their supporters to vote for Rafsanjani, since an Ahmadinejad win would give anti-Western religious hardliners control of every state institution.
Presidential candidate Mahmud Ahmadinejad Washington, 21 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- A statement from the Ansar-i Hizbullah in Isfahan has endorsed the candidacy of Tehran Mayor Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Radio Farda reported.
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