592 Iranians sign up for prez polls
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Sun, May 16 2021 9:21 IST |
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592 Iranians sign up for prez polls. Image Source: IANS News
Tehran, May 16 : A total of 592 people have registered for the 13th presidential polls in Iran, Jamal Orf, head of the country s election campaign, said.
Out of the total candidates, 40 are women and 552 are men, Xinhua news agency quoted Orf as saying in a statement on Saturday.
On Saturday, the last day of the registration process, three senior political figures announced their bid for the June 18 election.
Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi as a principlist candidate, First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri as a reformist candidate, and former Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani as a moderate conservative political figure officially registered for the campaign.
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Mohammad Osman Sherzai, head of Baghlan civil society association, was wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Pul-e-Khumri city on Friday night, local officials confirmed. Two other people were killed in the blast.
Six others including one of Sherzai’s gaurds were wounded in the blast.
“Three of those wounded are in critical condtion,” said Sayed Shayan Rouhani, a doctor at Baghlan provincial hospital.
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