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Iran announces low poll turnout, blames coronavirus ‘propaganda’
DUBAI: Iran yesterday announced a 42% turnout in its parliamentary election, the lowest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, while its top leader said Tehran’s enemies played up the new coronavirus threat to dissuade people from voting. With Iran facing growing
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Disillusionment among women, youth may dampen Iran election turnout
DUBAI: Middle-aged men have been plastered on campaign posters and online adverts this week ahead of Iran’s parliamentary election, even though women and young people make up the majority of voters. Roughly a third of Iran’s electorate is between 18
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Iranian parliamentary election campaign period ends
DUBAI: Campaigning officially ended today for Iran’s parliamentary election, state media said, a day before a vote seen as a litmus test of the popularity of the Islamic republic. The vote to pick 290 lawmakers is Iran’s first since U.S.
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Khamenei loyalists may tighten grip at Iranian elections
DUBAI: Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran in a parliamentary election stacked in their favour, as the leadership closes ranks with Washington. Big gains by security hawks would confirm the political demise of the country’s pragmatist politicians, weakened
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Hours of forewarning saved US, Iraqi lives from Iran’s missile attack
AIN AL-ASAD AIR BASE: Nearly eight hours before Iran’s Jan 8 missile attack on US forces at bases in Iraq, American and Iraqi soldiers at Ain al-Asad air base scrambled to move personnel and weaponry to fortified bunkers, two Iraqi
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Iran’s Supreme Leader: ‘How’s the slap in the face, US?’
Iran’s supreme leader said a “slap in the face” was delivered to the US, when the Islamic Republic fired missiles at US troop bases in Iraq today. “Last night, a slap in the face was delivered,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said
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Body of Qassem Soleimani arrives for burial in southeast Iran
The body of the senior Iranian military commander killed in a US drone strike in Iraq last week has arrived in his home town of Kerman in southeast Iran for burial, the official IRNA news agency said today. State TV
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‘Do whatever it takes to end it’: Iranian Ayatollah’s ultimatum to end unrest
After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to be impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them. That order, confirmed by
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‘Time to take out our swords’: Inside Iran’s plot to attack Saudi Arabia
Four months before a swarm of drones and missiles crippled the world’s biggest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia, Iranian security officials gathered at a heavily fortified compound in Tehran. The group included the top echelons of the Islamic Revolutionary
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US sends troops to bolster Saudi defences after attack
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and missile defences after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities, which Washington has squarely blamed on Iran. The Pentagon said the deployment would
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