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Middle East expert Scott Lucas answers our questions about the politicians vying to become the next president of Iran.
Moderates are likely to be shut out of the race for the presidency, now seen as a stepping stone to Iran’s top job.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Candidates have been pre-approved to favour the religious right.
The election result seems a foregone conclusion, but the country’s political future is far from certain.
Ahead of June 18 presidential elections, a new survey found that only around a quarter of Iranians plan to vote.
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Without protection, Iran’s spectacular American- and Italian-designed mid-century structures will be reduced to dust, beams and concrete blocks.
Will President Rouhani, who has spoken up for gender equality, give women a chance in his second term?
Iran’s economic recovery and reintegration into the global economy have become key electoral topics.
President is not the most important leadership role in Iran. The election is not completely democratic. That said, there’s a pretty competitive contest happening.
Jobs and labour rights are at the centre of the candidates’ campaigns in the Iranian presidential election.
Trump’s tough rhetoric is bad news for Iran’s moderates.
Rouhani’s conservative rivals are exploiting growing pessimism about the economy, increasing the odds that someone more hostile to the West might become Iran’s next president.
The Iranian president will finally get a parliament that backs his reforms. But much still stands in his way.
Over recent months, Iran has become the largest source of asylum seekers arriving in Australia, with more than 5,000 having arrived this year, amounting to about one-third of the total. While the debate…
In the past four weeks, a major political earthquake seems to have hit the Middle East, where three key regional constituencies: Iran, Qatar and Egypt, experienced more or less unexpected changes of leadership…
In the past 10 days big crowds of Iranians have taken to the streets to celebrate two things. The outpouring of joy for the unexpected first-round victory of Hassan Rowhani in the presidential election…
As Iranians go to the polls to elect a new president, new research suggests they have misgivings about the role of religious figures in the government of the country. But, as the US-based Pew Research…
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor, Public Law and Governance, Tilburg University
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Lecturer in the Contemporary Middle East and Iran, University of Manchester
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Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Faculty Fellow, Internet Governance Lab, American University School of Communication
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Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Middle East Politics & International Relations at Keele University, Keele University
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Director, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), Deakin University
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Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban History, Texas Tech University
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Leiden University
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PhD Candidate in Biology, Tufts University
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Director, Executive Leadership Academy, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University