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Authorities in Iran are seeking to encourage people to vote in Friday's presidential elections with news videos and images. A video by an Iranian news channel, yjc.ir, showed people lining up in ...
Raisi was the second president of Iran to have died in office, following Mohammad-Ali Rajai, who was killed in a bombing in 1981. [5] The presidential line of succession begins with Mohammad Mokhber, the first vice president. On 20 May, the cabinet said that the government would continue to operate "without the slightest disruption". [38]
The crash came two months after Iran launched a massive missile and drone attack on Israel, retaliating for an Israeli airstrike that killed two senior Iranian generals in Syria on April 1.
Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other ...
Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 [1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May. [2]Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf won 14% and Mostafa Pourmohammadi won less than 1% of the vote.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh Part of the Israel–Hamas war and the 2024 Iran–Israel conflict Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh (Tehran) Location Tehran, Iran Coordinates 35°49′10″N 51°24′57″E / 35.81944°N 51.41583°E / 35.81944; 51.41583 Date 31 July 2024 ~2:00 a.m. (IRST ...
Iranians voted on Friday in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, with the race's sole reformist candidate vowing to seek “friendly relations” with the West in ...
Iran's semi-official news agency, Mehr News, described them as having been "martyred in the crash." [144] Raisi was the second president of Iran to have died in office, following Mohammad-Ali Rajai, who died in a 1981 bombing. [145] Following confirmation of Raisi's death, Khamenei declared five days of national mourning. [146]