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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.