Mehdi Hajati Banned From Shiraz City Council For Seeking Release of Detained Baha’is
Shiraz City Council member Mehdi Hajati made national news in Iran after he was arrested for seeking the release of two Baha'is who ...
Tag : City Council
July 27, 2018
Iran Affirms Right of Constitutionally Recognized Religious Minorities to Run in Local Elections
Sepanta Niknam has reclaimed his city council seat in the city of Yazd, southeastern Iran, nine months after he was suspended by a local ...
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 ...
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 ...
October 30, 2017
Reformist Newspapers Criticize Guardian Council’s Decision to Ban Religious Minorities From Elections
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October 19, 2017
Iran’s Expediency Council to Decide Whether Religious Minorities Can Run in Elections
Yazd city councilman ...
October 18, 2017
Reformist Political Activist Turned Refugee Briefly Arrested Upon Return to Iran
A reformist political activist who fled Iran in 2011 after years of being harassed by the Intelligence Ministry was summoned to the Revolutionary Court in Evin Prison ...