MNA After studying the next year's budget bill, the Expediency Council on Saturday sent the bill to the Guardian Council for final ratification. According to the Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei, the council in an urgent session investigated the bill and send it for final ratification to the Guardian Council. On March 3, ...

Press TV - A spokesman for the Guardian Council, Irans vetting body, says the country has always listened with open ears to peaceful demonstrators, but security forces had a duty during last months violent riots to deal with acts of vandalism and sabotage. In an interview with France 24 released on Wednesday, Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei underlined the ...

Financial Tribune - The Guardians Councila watchdog body that ensures laws are in line with the Iranian Constitution and the Islamic lawhas found the parliament-approved bill on establishing a Commerce Ministry to be against articles 85 and 133 of the Iranian Constitution and sent it back to Majlis for reconsideration, Abbasali Kadkhodaei, the councils ...

MNA Iranian Parliament will hold a session Sun. to review a report of flaws pointed out by the Guardian Council on the bill on Irans accession to the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT). The controversial CFT bill had been referred to the national security committee to address and resolve the remaining flaws pointed out by the Guardian ...

IRNA Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday appointed Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani as new chairman of Irans Expediency Council. Ayatollah Amoli Larijani is Irans current judiciary chief. The appointment follows the death of Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the former chairman of the Council. In his decree, Ayatollah ...

MNA Guardian Council Spokesman said the Council cannot ignore the flaws in the bill on Irans accession to the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT), which it has found in opposition to the country's Constitution and Sharia law. Speaking in a conference on the four FATF-related bills that Iran has been required by the Financial Action ...

MNA Irans Guardian Council has approved an amendment bill on combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) as part of standards set by the FATF, according to the Council's spokesman. Spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, told reporters in a press conference on Saturday that the Council has acknowledged the amendment bill on combating ...

IFP- A senior Iranian conservative figure has criticized the Guardian Councils decision to disqualify the Zoroastrian member of Yazds City Council Sepanta Niknam, who had been elected by popular vote. Former chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Ezatollah Zarghami, published an image of Niknam on his Instagram page and wrote,...

Financial Tribune- The spokesman of the Guardian Council says it will respond to appeals filed by presidential contenders against irregularities and offences before and during the Friday vote. We have received several reports and complaints over the election process, which our experts are looking into. The council has until next Tuesday to respond,...

Tehran, May 11, IRNA Guardian Council again returned this year's budget bill to Majlis for necessary amendments. Deputy Head of Guardian Council for Executive Affairs Siamak Rahpeyk said the bill had already been amended and referred to Guardian Council for final approval but the Council returned the bill to the parliament once again for second ...

Tehran, Feb 10, IRNA - The Guardian Council on Wednesday confirmed former decision to reject competence of grandson of late Imam Khomeini to run for the Guardian Council election saying he would have taken exam for religious jurisprudent. The Guardian Council said that Seyed Hassan Khomeini refused to take part in the exam all applicants were required ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, has reversed a ban on 1,500 candidates who had registered to run in Feb. 26 parliamentary elections. State TV on Saturday said that says a list of approved candidates has been conveyed to Iran's Interior Ministry. The council, which is responsible for vetting candidates,...

On February 1, the former Iranian president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani directed harsh criticism at the countrys Guardian Council. He made his remarks in defense of Seyyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. The Council had earlier excluded him from running for the upcoming Assembly ...

A senior Iranian electoral official says 36 hopefuls in Tehran Province have gained approval from the Guardian Council, the countrys top supervisory and vetting body, to contest a seat in the Assembly of Experts elections, which are set to be held next month. Head ofTehran's Provincial Election Headquarters, Seyyed Shahabeddin Chavoshi, said on ...

Tehran, Oct. 18, The Iran Project Unveiling Iran'sundergroundmissile base, the verification of JCPOAimplementation by theGuardianCounciland the Core group meeting of Munich Security Conference in Tehran dominated the countrys media outlets inthe past week(12 Oct.-18 Oct.).   Politics Irans Guardian Council passes bill on implementation ...

TEHRAN, May 22 (MNA) The parliament and domestic affairs commission of Irans Majlis drafted a bill to send it to a voting session. After a month long examination and consulting with the Guardian Council and the speaker of Parliament, the Parliament and Domestic Affairs Commission finalized a draft to consider eachprovince as one constituencyfor ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Nationwide rallies in support of the Yemeni people and condemnation of Saudi airstrikes against innocent people in Yemen dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers....

While Spokesman for Iran's Guardian Council announced that eight more candidates for the 9th parliamentary elections were qualified, Interior Minister said Guardian Council has not yet sent us the list of recently qualified candidates. An extraordinary meeting was held in Guardian Council to examine the case of some candidates for parliamentary ...

While less than two weeks left to the Iran's ninth parliamentary elections, its 70-page story, which has started from December 24, is almost over. Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Dec 11 that registration for the 9th parliament elections took place nationwide on December 24-30, 2011. Candidates can refer to the division of the headquarters ...

Spokesman for the Guardian Council said 3.444 candidates of the ninth parliamentary elections were confirmed, adding their names have been handed over to the Interior Ministry's Election Headquarters. Abbasali Kadkhodaei emphasized that the Guardian Council has examined qualificationof the candidates according to the law. He said those ...