Press TV - The Iranian Interior Ministry has declared a first series of partial results from the Friday presidential election, putting Hassan Rouhani in the lead with 14,619,848 votes so far. Out of the 25,966,729 votes counted so far, 25,182,310 ballots were declared valid. The candidate with the second largest number of votes was Seyyed Ebrahim ...

Tasnim The head of the Iranian Interior Ministrys State Elections Committee said voting hours of the countrys ongoing elections will most likely be extended. Voting hours may be extended as the country has seen in previous elections and due to peoples high turnout in the polls, Ali Asghar Ahmadi said on Friday. He further thanked the Iranian ...

IRNA -- Over 56 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the 12th Iran's presidential election which is slated to be held on May 19, a senior official announced. He put the exact figure of eligible voters at 56,410,234. 'Iranian expatriates in other countries will be permitted to vote by their passports,' Head of the Election Committee of the ...

IRNA Few hours after a five-day time to register for Iran's upcoming presidential elections came to an end, Head of the Elections Headquarters Ali-Asghar Ahmadi said that totally 1,636 candidates filed for the elections. Registration for presidential elections began on April 11 and ended at 18:00 hours local time on Saturday. 137 out of the 1,...

IRNA - Ali Asghar Ahmadi, Elections Headquarters chief in the Interior Ministry said that registration of presidential candidates begins on April 11 and ends on April 16. Speaking to IRNA, he referred to registration of 287,425 people for the 5th city and village council elections across the country and noted that it has experienced 14 percent growth ...

MNA Head of State Electoral Headquarters has said in future presidential elections, 1.2 million people will vote for the first time. Mr. Ali Asghar Ahmadi who was speaking to press on Saturday said that the Foreign Ministry would help in receiving votes of Iranians abroad; 140 ballot boxes will collect the votes cast in presidential elections of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) In the wake of heavy monsoon rainfall in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu that caused massive flooding in the city of Chennai, Irans Red Crescent Society (IRCS) voiced readiness for relief and rescue operations in the flood-stricken regions. Director General of IRCS Ali Asghar Ahmadi extended his condolences to India over the ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Secretary General of Iranian Red Crescent Society Ali-Asghar Ahmadi said that 247 bodies of Iranian Hajj pilgrims killed in Mina deadly crush are still in Mecca. Iran will not accept missing of even one pilgrim, he said in a meeting with Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative office in Tehran Olivier ...

Iran is examining safe routesto dispatch its aid ship forpeople in war-ravaged Yemen from Djibouti to the western Yemeni port of Hudaydah, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) says. We are coordinating with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to deliver Irans humanitarian aid to the oppressed Yemeni people in Hudaydah port after ...

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) is set to dispatch a cargo ship of relief aid to the crisis-hit people in Yemen. Nejat cargo ship carrying Irans medical aid for Yemeni people is currently beingloaded in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas and will head to one of Yemens ports this weekend, IRCS Secretary General Ali Asghar Ahmadi ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The secretary general of Iran's Red Crescent Society denounced the Saudi regime's move to prevent humanitarian aid delivery to war victims in Yemen as "totally inhumane". Speaking to reporters, Ali Asghar Ahmadi condemned Saudi Arabia for imposing a severe blockade on Yemen and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The secretary general of Irans Red Crescent Society extended his condolences to the Nepalese people and government over the deadly earthquake in the Himalayan country, saying that the Islamic Republic is prepared to offer any kind of assistance. In a letter to Secretary General of Nepal Red Cross Society Dev Ratna Dhakhwa on Sunday,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian official said the joint railway linking Iran to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan is scheduled to come into operation in December. Iranian Vice-President for coordination and administrative affairs Ali Asqar Ahmadi said that the railway will be inaugurated concurrent with the upcoming visit of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...

[caption id="attachment_111552" align="alignright" width="228"] Irans Minister of Science, Research and Technology Reza Faraji-Dana answers the lawmakers questions at a Majlis session on September 30, 2013.[/caption] TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) Presidential Administrative and Coordination deputy has said Rouhanis provincial visit to Ardebil will go according ...