Tag: Guardian Council

The head of Iran’s Guardian Council says the council’s responsibility to oversee elections is “general and at every stage” and ...

Iranian MP Ahmad Tavakoli has expressed serious reservations about the Guardian Council’s disqualification of Minoo Khaleghi, the candidate who won ...

Iran’s Interior Minister has urged the Guardian Council to “speed up” the approval of the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts ...

Attacks against detractors of the Guardian Council have escalated, with Tehran’s Friday Mass Imam referring to critics of the council ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader, speaking on Wednesday February 17, less than 10 days before the election, condemned criticism directed at the ...

A Guardian Council member reported on Friday February 5 that 25 percent of the candidates who appealed their disqualification from ...

Of the 800 candidates vying for a spot on Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the Guardian Council has only approved 166 ...

The Guardian Council has rejected Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the late Islamic Republic leader Ayatollah Khomeini, as a candidate ...

Iran’s Interior Minister says he has reported the sweeping disqualification of parliamentary candidates by the Guardian Council to Ayatollah Khamenei, ...

The Khuzestan governor says the “unnecessary and illogical disqualification” of candidates is no different from cheating through tampering with ballot ...