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Iran's presidential election campaign has officially gotten underway after the country's Interior Ministry announced the names of the qualified candidates for the country's 13th presidential race on Tuesday.
- Following an eight-day vetting process, Iran s Constitutional Council, which supervises elections, selected seven out of 592 hopefuls, giving them the green light to begin campaigns for the June 18 presidential election voting day.
- Although some of the contenders have stronger professional backgrounds, we cannot really tell who holds a better chance to win the top executive post, before all candidates lay out their plans, Press TV said.
Iran s presidential election campaign has officially gotten underway after the country s Interior Ministry announced the names of the qualified candidates for the country s 13th presidential race on Tuesday.
Following an eight-day vetting process, Iran s Constitutional Council, which supervises elections, selected seven out of 592 hopefuls, giving them the green light to begin campaigns for the June 18 presidential election voting day.
2021-05-27 12:05:54 GMT2021-05-27 20:05:54(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TEHRAN, May 27 (Xinhua) Iran s presidential election campaign has officially gotten underway after the country s Interior Ministry announced the names of the qualified candidates for the country s 13th presidential race on Tuesday.
SEVEN CANDIDATES
Following an eight-day vetting process, Iran s Constitutional Council, which supervises elections, selected seven out of 592 hopefuls, giving them the green light to begin campaigns for the June 18 presidential election voting day.
The list comprises Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, Secretary of Iran s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei, lawmaker Alireza Zakani, Deputy Parliament Speaker Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati and former Vice President Mohsen Mehralizadeh.
16 December, 2020
The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati announced that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth (both with and without oil) has become positive, IRIB reported.
“Today s report of the Economic Accounts Department of the Central Bank indicates that the country’s GDP growth in the first six months of the current year (March 19-September 20) was positive with and without oil,” Hemmati wrote in a statement.
According to the report, the country’s GDP excluding the oil rose 1.4 percent in the mentioned period, while the figure increased by 1.3 percent with oil included.
Iran’s economic growth in the first and second quarters of the current year with oil were -2.9 percent and + 5.1 percent, respectively, and economic growth without oil in the mentioned quarters was -0.6 percent and + 3.2 percent, respectively, Hemmati said.