Iran’s conservatives unsurprisingly win legislative elections with record abstention |

This Monday, Iran released the official results of the legislative elections held last Friday, in which the conservatives renewed the comfortable majority they had in Parliament during the last legislature, with 232 seats out of 290. The country’s Electoral Commission has announced that 245 of that total number in the running have been elected in … Read more

Shervin Hajipour: Iran sentences the author of the anthem of the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini to almost four years in prison |

they stayed, The title of a song by Shervin Hajipour, means “because” or “because” in Farsi. The lyrics that this 26-year-old musician, one of the most popular in Iran, wrote, inspired by 31 messages that other Iranians had published on social networks, say: “For dancing in the streets”, “for every time we were afraid to … Read more

Why are elections called in Iran? |

Iran returns to the polls on March 1. Like every four years, the authorities organize new legislative elections in the face of growing apathy among citizens. Few believe in elections that offer no real alternative. Not even the coincidence with the renewal of the Assembly of Experts, a conclave that during its eight years of … Read more