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Iran: Hundreds of polling stations are virtually deserted

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 – Hundreds of polling stations in Tehran and other towns and cities monitored were virtually empty in the early hours of voting period today during Iran’s second round presidential elections. In Tehran, about a dozen people were seen queuing up in Geisha, Karaj Al-Mehdi Mosque, and North Amirabad polling stations.

Iran election: Reports show low turnout in provinces

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 –The Imam Ali Mosque in Pirouzi Street, Soudmand High School, Kowthar Mosque, and Ostad Shahriar School in Ghanat Kowthar Street, Al-Aqsa Mosque in Tehran-Pars, ninth district municipality in Tehran-Pars Fourth Square, Rasoul Mosque in Majidieh Street, Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology in Azadi Street, Shayesteh School in Lashgar Junction in Tehran each had a handful of voters present.

Iran election: Reports show low turnout in provinces

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 –The Imam Ali Mosque in Pirouzi Street, Soudmand High School, Kowthar Mosque, and Ostad Shahriar School in Ghanat Kowthar Street, Al-Aqsa Mosque in Tehran-Pars, ninth district municipality in Tehran-Pars Fourth Square, Rasoul Mosque in Majidieh Street, Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology in Azadi Street, Shayesteh School in Lashgar Junction in Tehran each had a handful of voters present.

Hundreds of youths demonstrate against elections in Iran capital

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 – A demonstration erupted in Tehran’s Melat Park last night against the second round of the presidential elections. The protest began at about 9:30 p.m. by youths and women who started chanting slogans calling the election “a sham” and inviting people to participate in a nationwide boycott.

Hundreds of youths demonstrate against elections in Iran capital

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 – A demonstration erupted in Tehran’s Melat Park last night against the second round of the presidential elections. The protest began at about 9:30 p.m. by youths and women who started chanting slogans calling the election “a sham” and inviting people to participate in a nationwide boycott.

Iran says it will enrich uranium, whatever the election result

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AFP: Iran will eventually resume its controversial uranium enrichment activities regardless of the result of the Islamic republic’s presidential election, the foreign ministry insisted Friday. “Whoever is the next president, a permanent suspension is not on the cards,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters. “Decisions on the nuclear question are taken in a collective way and at the highest levels of the regime,” he commented, even though he said the …

Iran election roundup

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 23
Iran MP: Certain people will try anything to influence the vote
Rafsanjani approves confinement of political prisoners
Iran’s run-off election will not be held in Canada
Student group calls on government to refrain from supporting particular candidate

Iran election roundup

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 23
Iran MP: Certain people will try anything to influence the vote
Rafsanjani approves confinement of political prisoners
Iran’s run-off election will not be held in Canada
Student group calls on government to refrain from supporting particular candidate

Student activist arrested at home in Iran capital

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 23 – Iran’s State Security Forces raided the home of a student activist in Tehran and arrested him less than 24 hours before the start of the second round of the presidential elections.
SSF agents raided the home of Kianoush Sanjari and took him to an unknown location a few hours ago, according to the Student Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners.

Student activist arrested at home in Iran capital

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 23 – Iran’s State Security Forces raided the home of a student activist in Tehran and arrested him less than 24 hours before the start of the second round of the presidential elections.
SSF agents raided the home of Kianoush Sanjari and took him to an unknown location a few hours ago, according to the Student Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners.