TEHRAN, June 12 (UPI) -- Both sides claimed victory late Friday in the Iranian election, with official state news agencies giving the win to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
TEHRAN, May 12 (UPI) -- The Guardian Council in Iran began the process of vetting 475 candidates, including more than 40 women, for the June presidential contest.
TEHRAN, May 10 (UPI) -- The lure of leading Iran has drawn 475 candidates to register for the presidential election, federal elections officials said Sunday.
TEHRAN, May 8 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday he had officially registered for re-election in Iran's 10th presidential election.
TEHRAN, April 23 (UPI) -- Hard-line conservative Mohsen Rezai says he's entering Iran's presidential race because of mismanagement by the current president.
TEHRAN, March 17 (UPI) -- Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami issued a statement announcing his withdrawal from the 2009 presidential race.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Nigeria's supreme court has thrown out the final challenge to last year's presidential election of Umaru Yar'Adua.
TEHRAN, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, apparently trying to reduce the control of fundamentalists, is backing a former president in a key election.
TEHRAN, July 5 (UPI) -- Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will not challenge the result of the presidential election which he lost to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
TEHRAN, June 26 (UPI) -- Iran said Sunday its nuclear program and strategy would not change with the election of new hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
