Constitutional Council secretary Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati thanked Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei for supporting the Constitutional Council in his recent speech.
The government of Iran is an Islamic Republic, established by the people based on their longstanding belief in the rule of Truth and Quranic Justice, following the victory of the Islamic Revolution led by the Grand Marja-e Taqlid Hazrat Ayatollah al-Uzma Imam Khomeini and voted upon with a 98.2% majority of eligible voters in a referendum held on the 10th and 11th of the month of Farvardin in the year 1358 of the solar Hijri calendar, equivalent to the 1st and 2nd of the month of Jamādi al-Ulā in the year 1399 of the lunar Hijri calendar [March 30-31, 1979 CE].
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.
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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.