The election season in Iran is a time of much foreign journalistic miscarriage. A good many foreign media outlets knowingly use half-truths or even outright lies to offer misshapen deliverances.

Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri has registered to run in the June 18 presidential election, pitting himself against Ebrahim Raeisi, who is seen as the Principlists’ main candidate.

Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, who heads the country’s Judiciary, officially declares his bid for presidency in the June 18 election, pronouncing himself an “independent.”

Ali Larijani, a veteran politician and seen as a key Principlist figure, has registered to run in Iran’s June 18 presidential election.

The number-one choices of the Principlist and Reformist political camps for candidacy in Iran’s 2021 presidential election have yet to put down their names for the race, one day before the registration of hopefuls officially ends.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, announces he will not be running for president in the June 18 election, officially turning down a major appeal by the Reformist camp and potentially reshaping the race.

Ayatollah Khamenei says a passionate popular turnout in the June 18 presidential election will boost the capabilities of the administration-elect and strengthen the country’s security status and deterrent power.

A legal jurist sitting on Iran’s Constitutional Council says there is no prohibition on women contesting presidential elections.

Iranian election officials begins registering individuals hoping to contest the presidential vote slated for June 18.

Iran’s Constitutional Council says it will only vet those presidential hopefuls who have submitted documents in accordance with the body’s recent interpretation of the law.