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Tag : Assembly of Experts

May 13, 2021

Iran Election: Guardian Council Flexes Muscle, Unlawfully Imposes More Qualification Requirements

A directive “ratified” by Iran’s Guardian Council, imposing new requirements for candidates to qualify to run in Iran’s June 2021 presidential election, has once again revealed the unconstitutional practices of the powerful unelected body. Accountable only ...

March 8, 2016

Iran Elections: Reformists Win Voter Support Despite Roadblocks and Irregularities

While facing non-stop impediments, reformists and centrists achieved significant gains in Iran’s recent elections, even after hardline bodies broke the law to prevent candidates close to President Hassan Rouhani from ...

March 3, 2016

Cartoon 141: Almost “Disqualified” By Voters

The February 2016 elections in Iran produced unexpected results for the hardliners, who had made every effort to keep reformist and moderate candidates out of the competition through major disqualifications handed out by the conservative Council ...

March 1, 2016

Iran Vote: Political Freedoms Must Be Rouhani’s Top Priority

Electorate Wants Human Rights and Rouhani Must Deliver March 1, 2016—In the elections for Parliament and the Assembly of Experts held across Iran on February 26, the Iranian electorate handed the country’s supreme leader, ...

February 10, 2016

Hardliners Violate Law to Keep Assembly of Experts Loyal to Khamenei

In addition to the massive disqualifications of moderate candidates for upcoming elections in Iran, hardliners have implemented another strategy to prevent challenges to their power: restricting the number of seats to important governmental bodies in ...

December 11, 2015

Elections for Assembly of Experts Puts Spotlight on Future of Leadership in Iran

Although Iran’s Assembly of Experts has the power to select or depose the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, it has never been seen as an influential body. The image of this popularly elected body of Islamic ...

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