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Election Office (Iran)
The Election Office ( fa, ستاد انتخابات کشور) is the body charged for implementation of election procedures in Iran and is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior. List of Heads See also * Elections in Iran *Guardian Council The Guardian Council, (also called Council of Guardians or Constitutional Council, fa, شورای نگهبان, Shourā-ye Negahbān) is an appointed and constitutionally mandated 12-member council that wields considerable power and influence i ... References External linksOfficial website {{National election commissions Iran Government of Iran Elections in Iran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Election Commission
An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, a central or state election commission, an election board, an electoral council or an electoral court. Election commissions can be independent, mixed, judicial or executive. They may also be responsible for electoral boundary delimitation. In federations there may be a separate body for each subnational government. An election commission has a duty to ensure elections are conducted in an orderly manner. Electoral models Independent model In the independent model the election commission is independent of the executive and manages its own budget. Countries with an independent election commission include Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Iranian Legislative Election
The Iranian parliamentary elections of February 20 and May 7, 2004 were a victory for Islamic conservatives over the reformist parties. Assisting the conservative victory was the disqualification of about 2500 reformist candidates earlier in January. Background The first round of the 2004 elections to the Iranian Parliament were held on February 20, 2004. Most of the 290 seats were decided at that time but a runoff was held 2½ months later on May 7, 2004, for the remaining thirty-nine seats where no candidate gained sufficient votes in the first round. In the Tehran area, the runoff elections were postponed to be held with the Iranian presidential election of June 17, 2005. The elections took place amidst a serious political crisis following the January 2004 decision to ban about 2500 candidates — nearly half of the total — including 80 sitting Parliament deputies. This decision, by the conservative Council of Guardians vetting body, "shattered any pretense of Iranian democr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sowlat Mortazavi
Sowlat Mortazavi ( fa, صولت مرتضوی, born 5 May 1955) is an Iranian conservative politician and the current Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of Iran. He is former Vice President of Iran for Executive Affairs and also former Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran. He is former Mayor of Mashhad. He was elected as the Mayor by the City Council by 19 votes on 20 September 2013 and sworn in on 1 October. Before that, he was under-secretary in Politics of Ministry of Interior during Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar's time as Interior Minister. He was also Mayor of Birjand from 1990 to 1999. He was appointed as head of Country's Election Headquarters The Election Office ( fa, ستاد انتخابات کشور) is the body charged for implementation of election procedures in Iran and is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior. List of Heads See also *Elections in Iran * Guardian Council ... on 17 May 2011. On 20 June 2017, he was suspended from h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadegh Mahsouli
Sadegh Mahsouli ( fa, صادق محصولی, born 9 March 1959) is an Iranian politician who was Minister of Interior from 2008 to 2009 and Minister of Welfare and Social Security from 2009 to 2011. He was appointed to this post on 19 November 2009, as part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second cabinet after a Parliamentary vote. From 24 March 2008 to 9 August 2009, he was Minister of Interior of Ahmadinejad's first cabinet. He was succeeded Ali Kordan who was impeached by Parliament in November 2008. Mahsouli withdrew his nomination once when the president nominated him for the position of oil minister in 2005 after admitted to Iranian parliament that he was worth $160 million. In 2011, it was announced that Ministry of Welfare will be merged with Ministry of Labour and Mahsouli will be left cabinet after it. Mahsouli was in charge of the Ministry of Interior when the alleged vote rigging happened in Iran's presidential election in June 2009. June 13 Letter On June 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Iranian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast. There were large irregularities in the results and people were surprised by them, which resulted in protests of millions of Iranians, across every Iranian city and around the world and the emergence of the opposition Iranian Green Movement. Many Iranian figures directly supported the protests and declared the votes were fraudulent. Among them, many film directors like Jafar Panahi (who was consequently banned from making movies for 20 years and condemned to six years imprisonment), Mohammad Rasoulof (also condemned to 6 years imprisonment), actors and actresses like Pegah Ahangarani (who was consequently im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamran Daneshjoo
Kamran Daneshjoo ( fa, کامران دانشجو; born 2 February 1956) is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013. Early life and education His web-site, ''Where?'', claims he has a Bs.C. degree from Queen Mary College (UK) and an Ms.C. degree from Imperial College, after which at some point he was expelled from the UK and restricted from entering the Schengen Area due to a prior arson attempt at the Penguin Book Store in London. He obtained his PhD by "The Viva examination held at Amirkabir University of technology, Iran June 1989". His claim to have earned a PhD has been disputed in Persian language blogs; previously, his web-page mentioned the ''Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology'' as the institute granting the Ph.D. It was reported that when obtaining Majlis's vote of confidence, the parliament speaker Ali Larijani defended him, saying he obtained his certificate in Tehran after he was kicked out of a London co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Iranian Legislative Election
Legislative elections for Majlis of Iran were held on 14 March 2008, with a second round held on 25 April 2008. Conservatives loyal to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were considered the victors of the election, at least in part because "all the most prominent" reformist candidates were disqualified from running. Qualification of candidates and campaign A few months before the election on December 14, 2007, twenty-one moderate and reformist parties formed a coalition centered on Mohammad Khatami to increase their chances in the election. However, around 1,700 candidates were barred from running by the Guardian Council vetting body, the Supervisory and Executive Election Boards, on the grounds that they were not sufficiently loyal to the Iranian revolution. These included 90% of "independent and reformist candidates," 19 sitting MPs, and Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson, Ali Eshraghi, who complained, "What saddens me most is the method of discernment used y the Council of Guardians . . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alireza Afshar
Alireza Afshar ( fa, علیرضا افشار) is an Iranian military officer. He served as the political deputy to the Minister of Interior, being appointed in August 2007. In this capacity, he served as head of Country's Election Headquarters during 2008 Iranian legislative election. He was formerly spokesman of Iranian Armed Forces. He was a member of the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization ( fa, سازمان مجاهدین انقلاب اسلامی, Sāzmān-e Mojāhedin-e Enqelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Holy Warriors of the Islamic Revolution) was an umbrella political organization in Iran, ... in the 1980s, and belonged to its right-wing faction. References Living people Iranian Vice Ministers Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization politicians Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps brigadier generals Year of birth uncertain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel of the Iran–Ira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدینژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956), is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, principlist politician who served as the sixth from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a member of the . He was known for his hardline views and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostafa Pourmohammadi
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi ( fa, مصطفی پورمحمدی; born 9 March 1960, Qom) is an Iranian politician and prosecutor, who has served at different positions and cabinet posts. He was minister of interior from 2005 to 2008 and minister of justice from 2013 until 2017. Pourmohammadi is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners.Interior Minister Pour-Mohammadi and Iranian Human Rights Abuses ''U.S. State Department'' 11 October 2006 Early life and education Pourmohammadi was born in Qom in 1960. However, IRNA reports his birth year as 1959. He was educated in |
2006 Iranian Assembly Of Experts Election
The fourth Iranian Assembly of Experts election was held on 15 December 2006. The Assembly of Experts is a Council of 86 '' mujtahids'' that elect the Supreme Leader, and oversee his actions. The members of the Assembly are elected every eight years directly by the people of Iran. The elections took place the same day as the City and Village Councils elections. Candidates The credentials of being a Mujtahid were approved for all candidates by the Guardian Council using written and oral (interview) examinations. Some members of the Guardian Council also ran for the Assembly of Experts. Although there were a few female ayatollahs ( Mujtahidehs) applying for candidacy, they could not pass the examination. The number of candidates which passed the examination was so low that the council had to lower the passing mark several times. There were initially 144 candidates for the 86 available seats. This was later increased, and according to Islamic Republic News Agency there were 181 qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Iranian Local Elections
The Iranian City and Village Councils election of 2006 took place on December 15, 2006. People elected representatives for City and Village Councils, who in their turn elected the mayors. The elections happened on the same day as the election for the Assembly of Experts. Candidates Every city and village in the country elected representatives. Iran's 46.5 million eligible voters elected about 233,000 candidates for more than 113,000 city and rural council posts. Results According '' The Financial Times'', partial results about cities other than Tehran indicated: * In Isfahan, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 3 out of 11 seats * In Tabriz, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 4 out of 16 seats * In Qom, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 3 out of 9 seats * In Shiraz, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 1 out of 11 seats * In Ardabil, Ahmadinejad's supporters won 1 out of 9 seats Safdar Hosseini, the provincial campaign coordinator for the Reformists Coalition, claimed that the reformists had wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
