Ebrahim Raisi, Abdolnaser Hemmati, Mohsen Rezaei & Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi are in the race to replace reformist President Hassan Rouhani, whose second term is coming to an end.
In a televised meeting, President Rouhani cited an unpublished health ministry report which suggests that most of Iran's 81 million people could get Covid-19 at some point.
Hassan Rouhani has been reduced to pleading with the hard-liners to show 'brotherhood', but his govt's poor handling of the Covid crisis has fed their vociferous complaints.
Iran threatened to withdraw from its last commitments to the 2015 deal that limited its nuclear program in exchange for lifting of international sanctions.
Iran is under intense international pressure to provide full accountability over the circumstances that led to the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet.
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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