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Tag : City Council election 2017

December 22, 2017

Guardian Council Rejects Parliament’s Amended Law Allowing Religious Minorities to Run in Local Elections

Six days after Iran’s Parliament passed an amendment reaffirming the right of minorities to run in local council elections, the Guardian Council’s Spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodaei announced the council had rejected ...

November 15, 2017

Supreme Administrative Court Blocks Judicial-Parliamentary Agreement to Reinstate Zoroastrian City Council Member  

The Supreme Administrative Court in Tehran has blocked an agreement by the speaker of Parliament and the head of the judiciary to reinstate Sepanta Niknam, a member of the Zoroastrian faith, to the Yazd City Council ...

November 6, 2017

Iran’s Rouhani Writes to Supreme Leader On Dispute Over Suspended Zoroastrian Council Member

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has condemned the recent suspension of a Zoroastrian member of a city council as “illegal” and asked the supreme leader to intervene in the growing dispute that has highlighted divisions within the state ...

November 3, 2017

Iranian State Officials Clash Over Allowing Religious Minorities in Local Elections

Suspended Zoroastrian Councilman at Center of Debate The head of Iran’s judiciary has sided with proponents of banning religious minorities from local elections while the Rouhani government has reiterated their rights as citizens under the ...

October 30, 2017

Reformist Newspapers Criticize Guardian Council’s Decision to Ban Religious Minorities From Elections

A photograph of Sepanta Niknam, who was suspended ...

October 19, 2017

Iran’s Expediency Council to Decide Whether Religious Minorities Can Run in Elections

Yazd city councilman Sepanta Niknam holds up a book called Ghathas, the 17 Avestan hymns ...

October 14, 2017

“Suspended” Zoroastrian Member of Yazd City Council Facing Uncertain Future

The head councilman of the city of Yazd, in southeastern Iran, has refused to carry out a court order suspending the membership of a fellow councilman who is a member of the minority Zoroastrian ...

May 11, 2017

Several Reformist Candidates Disqualified at Last Minute From Tehran City Council Election

A number of prominent reformist politicians have been disqualified from running in Tehran’s City Council election despite being previously approved by the election monitoring committee. The list of candidates who were not included on the committee’s official list, issued on ...

April 27, 2017

Female Former Council Member Advocates For Women Candidates in Iran’s Local Elections

Political parties and factions in Iran should promote more women candidates in the country’s local council elections to improve gender equality, Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a former Tehran city council member, told the Center for Human ...

April 27, 2017

Iran’s Other Elections: Local Council Applicants Subjected to Arbitrary Vetting

In a surprising development, a few outspoken and prominent political activists have been approved to run in Iran’s elections for city and village councils on May 19, 2017. However, many well-known activists and reformists have been arbitrarily disqualified. ...

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