Yazd, Iran News

Iran's Interior Ministry has announced the official shortlist of candidates that will be vying to succeed President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in that country's June 14 election.

Hundreds of hopeful Iranians, including thirty women, have registered as candidates to replace President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the forthcoming election on June 14, 2013 even though they have no chance whatsoever of being elected.

Analysts continue to obsess about next month's presidential elections in Iran. The latest source of speculation is that the Guardian Council, an unelected body charged with vetting presidential candidates might give the hook , on account of advanced age, to 78-year-old former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who last week declared his ... (more)

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No one had expected the women to gain any support from the Council but their failed attempt at least serves as a reminder of the lack of progress for women's rights in Iran.

Iranians walk in the old bazaar, in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, May 12, 2013. On Saturday former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's made a last minute surprise decision to enter Iran's presidential election process, which now includes more than 680 hopefuls and will culminate June 14 with just a handful of names on the ballot to succeed Mahmoud ... (more)

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WAM TEHRAN, April 24th, 2013 -- Three mild earthquakes measuring between 3 and 3.9 on Richter scale shook three provinces of Iran's Yazd, Bushehr, Sistan and Baluchestan on early Wednesday.