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Tag : Yazd City Council

April 12, 2018

Iran’s Expediency Council Dragging Its Feet Over Fate of Religious Minority Candidates in Local Elections

Six months have passed and the Iranian government has still not resolved the dispute over the suspension of a Yazd City Council member, Sepanta Niknam, due to his Zoroastrian ...

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 ...

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