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2024 Iranian Assembly Of Experts Election
The 2024 Iranian Assembly of Experts election were held on 1 March 2024, concurrently with the elections of the Islamic Consultative Majlis. Directly elected by the public from a list of candidates vetted by the Guardian Council, the Assembly of Experts is made up of 88 clerics with the responsibility of supervising the Supreme Leader and selecting a new one. Candidates A total of 510 candidates registered for the election and were vetted by the Council, bringing it down to only 138 by disqualifying moderates, and even several principlists, in favor of hardliners of the regime. Former president Hassan Rouhani applied for re-election in his home province of Semnan, as did Rouhani's former Interior Minister, Mahmoud Alavi and Minister of Justice Mostafa Pourmohammadi. However, all three were barred by the Guardian Council from standing, without publishing a reason. Rouhani described the decision as a "politically biased" ruling that "will undermine the nation's confidence in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Iranian Assembly Of Experts Election
The fifth Iranian Assembly of Experts election were held in Iran on 26 February 2016 to elect the members of the Assembly of Experts. All 88 members of the Assembly of Experts, who are known as mujtahids, are directly elected. The elections had been planned for 2014, but were delayed in order for the election to be held alongside the Islamic Consultative Assembly elections. The winning candidates of the elections, sitting until 2024, may have to choose the next Supreme Leader of Iran, or at least plan for it. The current Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei (born ), is reported from time to time to be in poor health. Registration and qualification process For the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 801 aspirants registered to run in the elections. The number was a 62.47% increase compared to the previous election held in 2006. Among the candidates there were 16 women, another unprecedented event. There have been no female members in the assembly since its establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostafa Pourmohammadi
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi ( fa, مصطفی پورمحمدی; born 9 March 1960, Qom) is an Iranian politician and prosecutor, who has served at different positions and cabinet posts. He was minister of interior from 2005 to 2008 and minister of justice from 2013 until 2017. Pourmohammadi is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners.Interior Minister Pour-Mohammadi and Iranian Human Rights Abuses ''U.S. State Department'' 11 October 2006 Early life and education Pourmohammadi was born in in 1960. However, IRNA reports his birth year as 1959. He was educa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbar Rafsanjanī
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic who was the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997. He was the head of the Assembly of Experts from 2007 until 2011 when he decided not to nominate himself for the post. He was also the chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. During his 40-year tenure, Rafsanjani amassed a large amount of power serving as the speaker of parliament, Commander-in-Chief during the Iran–Iraq War, President, and chose Ali Khamenei as the supreme leader of Iran. His powerful role and control over Iranian politics earned him the name "Akbar Shah". Rafsanjani became president of Iran after winning the 1989 Iranian presidential election, 1989 election. He served another term by w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, founded after the Iranian Revolution on 22 April 1979 by order of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. IISS Military Balance 2006, Routledge for the IISS, London, 2006, p. 187 Whereas the Iranian Army defends Iranian borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard is intended to protect the country's Islamic republic political system, which supporters believe includes preventing foreign interference and coups by the military or "deviant movements". The IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States. As of 2011, the Revolutionary Guards had at least 250,000 military personnel including ground, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem
Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem ( Persian: سید محمدعلی آلهاشم), also known as "Ayatollah Ale-Hashem" (born: 1962, in Tabriz), is the representative of Vali-e-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in the province of East Azerbaijan, and Imam of Friday Prayer in Tabriz. Ale-Hashem passed his education (till high school) in his city, afterwards moved to Qom in order to educate at Hawzah. This Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who was present at Iran-Iraq War, possesses the educational degree of Hawzah at "level 4" (Doctoral). Likewise, he passed his Kharij-Feqh lessen (of Hawzah) at the classes of Iran's supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei. He was also the head of "Political Ideological Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army" before being appointed at the position of Vali-e-Faqih representative in East-Azerbaijan and Tabriz Imam-Jom'ah. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Saeedi
Mohammad Saeedi is deputy head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. Biography On 30 March 2005, Saeedi said “IAEA inspectors visit (Natanz, a uranium enrichment) facility at least once a month and also use a monitoring system to check the suspension.” On 31 March 2005, journalists were allowed to accompany Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on his first official visit to the Natanz nuclear facility. On 8 August 2005, Saeedi announced that Iran’s nuclear program had been resumed at the uranium conversion facility near the city of Isfahan. In August 2015, Saeedi was appointed managing director of IRISL Group, the largest Iranian shipping company. He resigned in July 2019. See also * Gholam Reza Aghazadeh Gholam Reza Aghazadeh ( fa, غلامرضا آقازاده, born Khoy, Iran on 15 March 1949) is an Iranian politician. Aghazadeh served as the Vice President for Atomic Energy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the president of the Atomic En ... References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerman
Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in 221,389 households, making it the 10th most populous city of Iran. It is the largest and most developed city in Kerman Province and one of the most important cities in the southeast of Iran. It is also one of the largest cities of Iran in terms of area. Kerman is famous for its long history and strong cultural heritage. The city is home to many historic mosques and Zoroastrian fire temples. Kerman became the capital city of Iranian dynasties several times during its history. It is located on a large, flat plain, 800 km (500 mi) south-east of Tehran, the capital of Iran. History Kerman was founded as a defensive outpost, with the name Veh-Ardashir, by Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian Empire, in the 3rd century AD. After the Battle of Nahāv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Khatami
Sayyid Ahmad Khatami ( fa, احمد خاتمی, born 8 May 1960) is a senior Iranian Shia cleric, member of Guardian Council and a senior member of the Assembly of Experts. In December 2005, Ali Khamenei appointed him as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader. He is also a conservative and principlist politician. He was born in the city of Semnan, Iran. He studied at seminaries in Qom and Semnan. In 2006, during the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, Khatami asked the Pope to "fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to understand Islam." In 2007, he addressed the death sentence issued by Imam Khomeini against Salman Rushdie, saying "In the Islamic Iran that revolutionary ''fatwa'' of Imam homeiniis still alive and cannot be changed." In regard to the 2009 Iranian election protests, Khatami denounced demonstrators as rioters who wage war against God ("'' mohareb''"), (a capital crime in Islamic law), and more recently accused reformist president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Interior (Iran)
The Ministry of Interior ( fa, وزارت کشور, ''Vâzart-e Kâshvar'') of the Islamic Republic of Iran is in charge of performing, supervising and reporting elections, policing, and other responsibilities related to an interior ministry. Duties *To provide and protect domestic security and establishment of peace and order across the country and coordination between intelligence, disciplinary, and military organs and protecting borders *To manage police affairs *To make an effort to achieve and develop political and social freedoms according to the constitution and other laws of the country and providing sustainable political and social development and promotion of public participation *To protect and preserve the achievements of I.R. of Iran through public participations *To provide conditions of appropriate practice of political and nongovernmental parties and formations and supervision on their activities *To guide, lead and support of Islamic councils and supervision on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Khamenei
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنهای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja''' and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. According to his official website, Khamenei was arrested six times before being sent into exile for three years during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign. After the Iranian revolution overthrowing the shah, he was the target of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralysed his right arm. Khamenei was one of Iran's leaders during the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s, and developed close ties with the now powerful Revolutionary Guards which he controls, and whose commanders are elected and dismissed by him. The Revolutionary Guards have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euronews
Euronews (styled on-air in lowercase as euronews) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective. The majority of Euronews (88%) is owned by Portuguese investment management firm Alpac Capital,Portuguese investor will buy Euronews , Egypt's Sawiris to sell struggling bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Khorasan Province
South Khorasan Province ( fa, استان خراسان جنوبی ''Ostān-e Khorāsān-e Jonūbī'') is a province located in eastern Iran. Birjand is the centre of the province. The other major cities are Ferdows, Tabas and Qaen. In 2014, it was placed in Region 5. This new province, is but the old Quhistan which was included into greater Khorasan in the Iranian administrative planning. However, historically Qohistan forms a separate entity, with a distinct culture, history, environment and ecology. South Khorasan is one of the three provinces that were created after the division of Khorasan in 2004. While at the beginning, the newly created "South Khorasan" included only Birjand County and some new counties detached from that county (i.e. Nehbandan, Darmian and Sarbisheh), in subsequent years, all northern and western cities and territories of the old Quhistan (such as Qaen, Ferdows and Tabas) have been annexed into the South Khorasan. South Khorasan Province consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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