News Archive - 8 June 2017

Major Principlist figures, formerly hopefuls themselves, are leaning toward Ebrahim Raisi. One of the latest examples is former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.

Pro-reform newspaper Aftab Yazd has published an article by Ayat Gheisarbeigi who has listed one hundred reasons why Iranians should vote for Hassan Rouhani again in the upcoming presidential election. Here is a translation of the list.

Here is what Iran’s presidential candidates have said about the nuclear deal, and it is not what you may have thought.

Iranian press react to Hamas’ policy update.

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri appeared as the superstar of the first presidential debate but failed to realize expectations in the second. Here is why.

In an interview with Fararu, leading Reformist activist Mostafa Tajzadeh relays his ideas on what presidential candidates should observe if they want to persuade people to vote for them.

President Rouhani has just started to campaign as recklessly as his contenders. And they have become furious.

Everyone is speaking about the third televised presidential debate, but views widely vary on that.

Ebrahim Raisi’s campaign has much in common with the Ahmadinejad administration, just as President Hassan Rouhani said in the third televised debate.

Tehran’s mayor has put an end to his 12-year dream to be Iran’s president.

In a region tormented by civil wars and dictatorships, Iranians prove there still exists a path towards democracy and security. By Saman Safarzaee.

One day after the presidential election and results yet to be announced, how did the front page of Iranian newspapers look?

Rouhani’s rivals tried to build up their campaign through bipolarization and shooting back-to-back allegations of corruption against the administration. Iranians, however, voted for stability.