Backgrounder: Four candidates in
Iran's presidential election
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Iran's incumbent president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad casts ballot in the presidential election at a polling station
in Tehran June 12, 2009. Iran held presidential election on June 12.
(Xinhua Photo)
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High turnout of voters for Iran's
presidential election
TEHRAN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Voters are actively casting
their ballots in Iran's presidential election at polling stations throughout the
country which started at 8:00 a.m. local time (0330GMT). Long queues are seen at
every polling station before the voting began. Full story
Iran's presidential race most tense
ever
TEHRAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Since Iran's Islamic
Revolution in 1979, the upcoming presidential campaigning this year is the most
tense political event that the country has ever experienced.
The conservative and the reformist camps confronted
one another, gearing up rhetorics of accusing each other and making the
atmosphere increasingly tense in the run-up to the voting on Friday. Full story
Iran's Mousavi, Ahmadinejad's
challenger, seeks healthy election
TEHRAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- In a letter to Iran's Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran's presidential hopeful Mir-hossein
Mousavi sought for "healthy election," the local satellite Press TV reported on
Thursday.
Mousavi, as the main challenger to the incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, requested the Leader to take measures aimed at
protecting the vote, ensuring a healthy election and also to intervene and
advise all officials to remain impartial in the Friday election, the report
said. Full story
Iran's presidential election still
unpredictable amid tight race
TEHRAN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Two front-runners in the race
for Iran's next presidency -- incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former
Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi -- seemed to have no favorite odds-on as
their close contest entered the last day. Full story
Iran's Ahmadinejad says election day
to be "bigger no" to his rivals
TEHRAN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday that the upcoming presidential elections day
will be a "bigger no" to his rivals, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"With God's grace, the nation will say a bigger no to
the enemies (some rivals), thus throwing them to the abyss of history,"
Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. Full story
Iran's Ahmadinejad renews call for
debate with U.S. Obama
TEHRAN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said that he would invite the U.S. President Barack Obama to a
debate at the United Nations if re-elected as Iran's president, the
semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
"I want constructive interaction on justice and
respect and if I remain in the post, I will invite President Obama to a debate
in the venue of the United Nations General Assembly," Ahmadinejad said in an
interview Tuesday. Full story
Iran's Mousavi says Ahmadinejad
"twists truth" on economy
TEHRAN, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Iran's presidential hopeful
Mir-Hossein Mousavi said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "twists truth" on
economic issues, Iran's satellite Press TV reported Monday. Full story
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