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Iran's moderate conservative Ali Larijani has been reelected as speaker of parliament despite major gains for reformists in elections last February.
In Iran's political landscape, the Tehran mayor, appointed by the city council, wields power equivalent to that of a minister.
Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili will run off against the other in the second round scheduled for next Friday.
Eighty politicians registered for this election, but the country's Guardian Council approved only six of them to run.
The recent Israeli war on Gaza has laid bare a stark division within the Iranian opposition, with differing and passionate views.
Mohammad Khatami skirts a media ban to endorse Hassan Rouhani for a second term in a tight May 19 election.
An Iranian opposition news website says authorities have barred former reformist President Mohammad Khatami from attending a meeting of his allies.
Despite mounting pressure from critics and public opinion to secure Iran's share in a joint gas field with Kuwait, Iranian officials remained silent, stepping back from previous claims they had.
Ali Shamkhani, Iran's only IRGC rear admiral and the receiver of Saudi Arabia's Order of Abdulaziz Al Saud, begins to play an active role in the country's regional foreign policy.
The deadly attack on the Azerbaijan embassy in Iran last month was the latest of several assaults on foreign diplomatic missions, which had become a routine in Tehran since the 1979 revolution.