Iran vetting body reinstates more election hopefuls
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An Iranian hardline vetting body has reinstated another 250 candidates to run in next month's parliamentary election, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, but reformists say they still face an uphill battle.
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VIENNA -- The UN nuclear watchdog agency is pushing for a fresh look at an Iranian military complex linked by the United States to possible atomic arms research just days after being granted limited access, diplomats said yesterday.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's president called yesterday for an investigation into journalists' allegations that they were tortured into confessing to charges such as insulting sacred beliefs and endangering national security after publishing articles critical of conservatives in the government. About 20 journalists from print, Internet, and other media outlets have been detained in Iran since a crackdown on the proreform press ...
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Irish President Mary McAleese is returned unopposed for a second seven-year term.
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Close to 400 people registered as candidates Saturday for Iranian parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Afghan officials delayed counting ballots  on Monday after the historic presidential election to deal with  complaints of fraud, but several candidates appeared to be  pulling back from an initial decision to reject the vote.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 29 -- Europe's principal elections watchdog group said Tuesday it may refuse to monitor a second Russian election in a row because the authorities here have imposed "serious restrictions" on the organization's ability to scrutinize the March 2 presidential elections.
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Iran is investigating a fourth Iranian-American who has been held in the Islamic Republic, the country's semiofficial news agency ISNA reported Friday.
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Candidates began registering on Saturday for Iran's parliamentary election in March, which will pit conservatives who now dominate the assembly against moderates seeking a comeback.
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Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson is one of hundreds of candidates reinstated in Iran's parliamentary election.
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Partial results from key polls in Iran suggest a setback for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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About 40 percent of the 7,200 people who have registered to run in Iran's March parliament election "have a record" with the authorities, a senior official said Monday, an indication they would not be allowed to run.
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Iran's judicial authorities have launched investigations based on fresh evidence in the cases of two Iranian-Americans detained on spying charges, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
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In the second round of the country&#39;s legislative elections on Sunday, some 35 million registered voters are choosing parliamentary deputies in the 467 constituencies where there was no winner in the first round a week ago.
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A Shiite official Thursday announced a coalition of 228 candidates backed by leading Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for Iraq&#39;s Jan. 30 elections.
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TEHRAN -- Iran said yesterday that it was downgrading its representation at a ministerial meeting of Iraq's neighbors in Jordan this week, apparently to protest accusations by Jordan's monarch that Tehran was trying to influence the upcoming Iraqi elections.