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Foreign Actors Manufacturing Videos and Spreading Fake News to Undermine US Election Integrity
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Foreign Actors Manufacturing Videos and Spreading Fake News to Undermine US Election Integrity

India Today  

US agencies have debunked two new examples of Russian election disinformation in the lead-up to Election Day. The first article claimed that US officials across presidential swing states were orchestrating a plan to commit fraud, while the second video falsely depicted an interview with an individual claiming election fraud in Arizona. These efforts pose a significant threat to the legitimacy …

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Iran election 2024: Pezeshkian vs Jalili in presidential race; voting underway
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Iran election 2024: Pezeshkian vs Jalili in presidential race; voting underway

Hindustan Times  

The voting for the presidential elections in Iran is currently underway, with the citizens set to choose the successor of former president Ebrahim Raisi through the polls. Iranian citizens wait in queue to cast their votes during the second round of the Iranian presidential elections at a polling station inside the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 5, 2024. …

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Iran holds runoff presidential vote pitting hard-line former negotiator against reformist lawmaker
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Iran holds runoff presidential vote pitting hard-line former negotiator against reformist lawmaker

Hindustan Times  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East. Iran holds runoff presidential vote pitting hard-line former negotiator against …

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Iran holds presidential runoff election between a hard-liner and reformist
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Iran holds presidential runoff election between a hard-liner and reformist

LA Times  

Reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian waves as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran on Friday. Iran held a runoff presidential election Friday pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker, though both men earlier struggled to convince a skeptical public to cast ballots in the first round that saw the lowest turnout …

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Iran will hold a runoff election between a reformist and a hard-liner
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Iran will hold a runoff election between a reformist and a hard-liner

NPR  

Iran will hold a runoff election between a reformist and a hard-liner toggle caption Hossein Beris/AFP Iranians will head back to the polls next week to decide between a reformist and a hard-line conservative for president. The runoff election comes after the first vote, which took place on Friday, ended with none of the candidates receiving a majority. How the …

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Iran to hold runoff election between reformist and hard-liner after low-turnout vote
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Iran to hold runoff election between reformist and hard-liner after low-turnout vote

LA Times  

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian casts his ballot and waves to media in Tehran on Friday. Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. With Jalili now alone in facing the cardiac surgeon, Pezeshkian’s campaign would need to …

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Parliament speaker. The Tehran mayor. A heart surgeon. The race is on for Iran’s next president
6 months ago

Parliament speaker. The Tehran mayor. A heart surgeon. The race is on for Iran’s next president

Associated Press  

Six candidates have been approved by Iran’s theocracy to run in Friday’s presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash with several other officials in May. Iran’s former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who served under the relative-moderate President Hassan Rouhani and helped strike the nuclear deal, has backed him. In 2006, the …

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Why Iran polls are not only about electing its next president
6 months, 1 week ago

Why Iran polls are not only about electing its next president

Firstpost  

Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president who died in a helicopter crash last month, was also tipped to be a favourite to be the next Supreme Leader of Iran. A president elected by the Iranian voters is by rule a candidate approved by a panel controlled by the Ayatollah — a title Ali Khamenei was given during his elevation as the …

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Netanyahu is back. Here’s what that means for Israel
2 years, 1 month ago

Netanyahu is back. Here’s what that means for Israel

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Iran protests Iran indicted about 1,000 people in Tehran province for their alleged involvement in nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, state-news IRNA said on Monday. The digest Iran prepares to …

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Is there any way out of Israel’s neverending election cycle?
2 years, 6 months ago

Is there any way out of Israel’s neverending election cycle?

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Given that the six-seat, mostly Arab-supported Joint List have said they will not do so, Netanyahu’s allies would need to convince at least seven additional members of the current coalition to join them. Israel’s parliamentary …

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'Next Few Weeks Critical': Iran Nears an Atomic Milestone, Warn Experts
3 years, 3 months ago

'Next Few Weeks Critical': Iran Nears an Atomic Milestone, Warn Experts

News 18  

Iran has come within roughly a month of having enough material to fuel a single nuclear weapon, crossing a threshold that may raise pressure on the United States and its allies to improve the terms of a potential deal to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement. Experts studying new data contained in reports last week by the International Atomic Energy Agency, …

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US sanctions Iranian groups for ‘attempted election interference’
4 years, 2 months ago

US sanctions Iranian groups for ‘attempted election interference’

Al Jazeera  

The US accuses Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, among other groups, of trying to interfere in upcoming election. In a statement on Thursday, the US Department of the Treasury said it designated Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC’s Quds Force, and the Bayan Rasaneh Gostar Institute “for having directly or indirectly engaged in, It also designated the Iranian …

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