TEHRAN, April 12, YJC -Senior Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi stressed the need for all the people of the country to participate in the upcoming presidential elections due to be held in May.
TEHRAN, April 12, YJC -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former two-time president, has registered to contest the 12th round of presidential elections in the country.
TEHRAN, April 4, YJC - Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has no plans to run for office again at the moment, her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, said on Tuesday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed a recent US report criticizing elections in the Islamic Republic, urging American officials to focus on the internal affairs of their own country.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has stressed the need for plans to ensure security of the upcoming presidential election in Iran by upholding the rule of law and attract the maximum number of voters, the interior minister said.
Anti-immigration sentiments have soared in the US following the recent election victory of Donald Trump, who made tightening of borders a main pledge of his campaign.
DUSHANBE, March 1. /TASS/. On the day of parliamentary elections, the situation in Tajikistan is stable and is controlled fully by the police, the republic's Interior Minister Ramazon Rakhimzod told TASS on Sunday rejecting categorically claims published in some foreign media that police is using special forces or armoured vehicles.
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, Oct 26, 2014 (AFP) - Aecio Neves, the center-right challenger who suffered a narrow election defeat Sunday to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, said he had called to congratulate her and urge unity after a divisive campaign.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug 26, 2014 (AFP) - Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah threatened on Tuesday to withdraw from an audit of votes cast in the election, a move that could wreck UN efforts to rescue the country's first democratic transfer of power.
Tehran, YJC. -- Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said Iran would support the political process leading to appointment of the Prime Minister in Iraq, mehr news agency reported.
Afghanistan's presidential election results will be announced Thursday after authorities completed fraud investigations into the first round of voting to find a successor to Hamid Karzai as the war-torn country enters a new era.
Afghan election front-runner Abdullah Abdullah received a major boost to his campaign Sunday when Zalmai Rassoul, a close ally of the current president, endorsed him after withdrawing from the race.
A bomb near a polling station in north Iraq killed two women on Wednesday, officials said, as voters cast their ballots under tight security following a surge of pre-election violence.
Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani pledged Sunday to fight on after coming second in preliminary election results, setting the stage for a difficult run-off vote likely to be targeted by Taliban militants.