In addressing the Iranian nation in his annual speech on the first day of the Persian New Year this year, 1400 AH (March 2021), the Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran enumerated eight characteristics necessary in the country’s new president who is to be chosen in the upcoming elections. Emphasizing the importance of the enthusiastic participation of the people in the elections on June 18, 2021, Imam Khamenei stated that the solution to the serious problems of the country lies in making a good choice.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei spoke with the people's representatives via video conference on Thursday, May 27, 2021.

A jurist member and deputy secretary of the Constitutional Council — which supervises elections and vets candidates — said the disqualifications of nominees have nothing to do with their political inclinations.

Official campaigning has started for Iran’s upcoming presidential elections.

Iran's Constitutional Council has released the final list of candidates qualified to run in the forthcoming presidential election.

The spokesman for the Constitutional Council said presidential candidates must not start campaigning before the vetting body announces the names of qualified candidates.

Iran’s Constitutional Council congratulated the Palestinian nation over the “great victory” of the resistance front against the Zionist regime of Israel.

Iran’s Constitutional Council has released the full text of its spokesperson’s recent interview with The Associated Press after the American news agency published selectively chosen extracts from the interview.

The election season in Iran is a time of much foreign journalistic miscarriage. Whereas a small percentage of foreign journalists and correspondents reporting on or even from Iran simply fail to familiarize themselves with the many nuances of Iranian life and politics in an audience-worthy fashion, a good many others knowingly use half-truths or even outright lies to offer misshapen deliverances.

Iran's Constitutional Council starts checking the qualifications of the nominees for the forthcoming 13th presidential election.