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1 hr ago | The Washington Post

Iran's race to the presidency begins

Eight competitors in the race to replace Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began their three-week-long campaign sprint over the weekend, holding almost daily events and dominating the country's radio and television airwaves.

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3 hrs ago | Trend

Iran's senior cleric calls for high voter turnout in elections

Senior Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri-Hamedani has called for a high voter turnout in the country's forthcoming presidential and council elections, Press TV reported.

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7 hrs ago | Washington Times

Iran ensures no change with West in presidential election

Iran's June 14 elections are expected to produce a president loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and not improve prospects for an end to the country's nuclear standoff with the West or its support for President Bashar Assad's embattled regime in Syria.

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11 hrs ago | Al Bawaba

Iran to fly its own drone

A senior Iranian legislator underlined the Iranian Armed Forces' capabilities to hunt down alien Unmanned Aerial Vehicles , and said the Iranian type of the US drone which was tracked and hunted down in Iran late in 2011 will have its first flight in the near future.

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15 hrs ago | The Charlotte Observer

Iran fields 'massive' number of missile launchers

TEHRAN, Iran An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers.

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Sat May 25, 2013

Stars and Stripes

Ryan Crocker says US is fumbling on Iran's nuclear program

Ryan Crocker has long been viewed as America's indispensable diplomat in the Muslim world.

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Trend

Bolivian president calls for enhanced ties with Iran

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday stressed the need to promote mutual cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in all the fields, especially to stop intervention of US imperialism and arrogant powers in global affairs, IRNA reported.

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Payvand News of Iran

Kerry: Choice of Iranian Presidential Candidates Denies Popular Will

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the disqualification of candidates in Iran's presidential election shows the country's religious leaders are interested only in reinforcing their own power rather than giving voters a choice of opposing views.

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Trend

Four Iranian presidential candidates begin campaigning

Four out of the eight Iranian presidential candidates approved by the country's Guardian Council have officially started campaigning, Press TV reported.

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Tehran Times

Iran inks deals to develop Sardar-e Jangal field in Caspian Sea

TEHRAN Iran's Khazar Oil Company has signed eight contracts with domestic contractors in order to develop Sardar-e Jangal oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea, the company's managing director Ali Osuli said.

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Tehran Times

Iran is winning its strategic struggle with U.S.: Jalili

TEHRAN Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and presidential candidate, Saeed Jalili, has said that efforts by the United States to hinder the country's progress have failed and Iran is winning its strategic battle against the U.S. Jalili, who is the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, made the remarks during an interview with the ... (more)

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Fri May 24, 2013

Trend

Two Iranian presidential candidates start media campaigns

Azerbaijan, Baku, May.24/ Trend F.Karimov, S. Isayev/ Mohsen Rezaei and Mohammad Gharazi, two of candidates for Iran presidential election, have started their TV and radio campaign programs for introducing their plans and objectives, ISNA reported.

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BBC News

Iran election: Conservatives dominate narrow field

By the standards of democratic countries, presidential elections in Iran are neither free nor fair; but the range of candidates does offer an element of choice.

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Weekday Magazine

Iran Prepares Itself for June Presidential Vote By Stepping Up Security Measures

Iranian authorities are doing their utmost to ensure that there is no repeat of the daily unrest that followed the 2009 presidential election.

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The Peninsula

Iranian filmmaker makes it to Cannes amid secrecy

Iran ian director Mohammad Rasoulof poses during a photocall for the film "Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand" presented in the Un Certain Regard section at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes.

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Tehran Times

Iran gets in election mode

TEHRAN Iran began gearing up for its 11th presidential election after the Interior Ministry published the final list of approved candidates for the June 14 election.

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Clover Herald

Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

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News9 Oklahoma City

Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering

After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is.

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Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

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Payvand News of Iran

More Executions In Iran As Elections Near: 58 Hanged in One Month

According to figures released by officials or official agencies of the Islamic republic, at least 58 people, including two women, were hanged in Iran in the past month.

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