Iran to hold presidential elections on 12 June 2009
Washington, 7 September (IranVNC)—Iran’s powerful Guardian Council today agreed to hold the country’s 2009 presidential election on 12 June, media reported today.
By: IranVNC
Published: Sunday, September 07, 2008
2:00PM/EST—18:00GMT
IRAN – PRESIDENT – ELECTIONS
Washington, 7 September (IranVNC)—Iran’s powerful Guardian Council today agreed to hold the country’s 2009 presidential election on 12 June, media reported today.
“The 10th presidential election… will be held on the 22nd of Khordad [12 June] of next year,” the semi-official Fars News Agency quoted Alireza Afshar, chief of Iran’s election headquarters as saying.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hard-liner who was elected Iran’s president in June 2005, is likely to run for re-election in next year’s elections.
Last month, Ahmadinejad received the indirect support of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for a second term in office.
But in July, Mostafa Tajzadeh, a close ally of Iran’s former reformist President Mohammad Khatami criticized Ahmadinejad’s record and warned against re-electing him to office in next year’s presidential elections.
He urged voters to back Khatami, whom he called the only reformist leader capable of becoming a viable candidate.
Khatami served two terms as president from 1997 to 2005.
Sources: Fars News Agency, IRNA in Persian
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