Zitat:Iran uses door-to-door diplomacy to spark baby boom
Population drive aims to raise population to 150 Million

Monday 22 April 2013
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About 150,000 health officials have been deployed for a programme of door-to-door diplomacy in an effort to persuade couples to have more children and single people to get married in an attempt to boost the population of the Islamic Republic. The move is in fact something of a U-turn, coming 20 years after the last attempt at state intervention into the nation’s bedrooms when officials offered citizens contraceptives and offered family planning advice to newly married couples.

Iran’s population currently stands at approximately 75 million. Last year, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered an end to the $15 billion (£9.8bn) national family planning budget and at the same time called for the population to reach 150 million.
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Zitat:Präsidentenwahl im Iran

Rafsandschani kandidiert erneut

Der frühere iranische Staatschef Akbar Haschemi Rafsandschani hat überraschend seine Kandidatur für die Präsidentenwahl am 14. Juni angemeldet. Medienberichten zufolge reichte er seine Bewerbung nur wenige Minuten vor Ablauf der Anmeldefrist ein.
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Stand: 11.05.2013 18:25 Uhr

Zitat:686 candidates register for Iran's upcoming presidential election
English.news.cn 2013-05-12 16:14:02

TEHRAN, May 12 (Xinhua) -- The latest report released by Iran's Interior Ministry showed a total of 686 candidates have registered for the upcoming presidential election slated for June 14.
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Zitat:Irans Atom-Chefunterhändler will Präsident werden

Für die anstehenden Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran haben mit Atom-Chefunterhändler Said Dschalili und dem gemäßigten Ex-Präsidenten Akbar Haschemi Rafsandschani zwei politische Schwergewichte ihren Hut in den Ring geworfen.

Für die anstehenden Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran haben zwei politische Schwergewichte ihren Hut in den Ring geworfen: Atom-Chefunterhändler Said Dschalili und der gemäßigte Ex-Präsident Akbar Haschemi Rafsandschani trugen sich am letzten möglichen Tag in die Kandidatenliste ein, wie ein AFP-Reporter berichtete. Im Iran wird am 14. Juni ein Nachfolger für Mahmud Ahmadinedschad gewählt, der nach zwei Amtszeiten nicht erneut kandidieren darf.
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Iran is expected to export a total of 20 million tons of cement in 2013 which will make the country rank third after China and India, the Global Cement magazine wrote in its latest edition.
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"Iran's cement exports touched 13.5 million tons in the one-year period showing a 38 percent increase last year," Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade Vajihollah Ja'fari said.
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Zitat:21. Mai 2013 20:18
Wahl in Iran
Ex-Präsident Rafsandschani darf nicht antreten

Irans früherer Präsident Rafsandschani darf bei der kommenden Präsidentenwahl nicht antreten. Der Wächterrat verweigert ihm laut der staatlichen Nachrichtenagentur Fars die Teilnahme.

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Zitat:Iran’s constitutional supervisory body, the Guardian Council, has approved eight hopefuls to run in the upcoming presidential race slated for June 14.

The Council on Tuesday approved MP Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, Secretary of the Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei and President of the Center for Strategic Research of the Expediency Council Hassan Rohani.

The list also included former First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Aref, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, former telecommunication minister, Mohammad Gharazi, and former foreign minister, Ali-Akbar Velayati.

Former president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, and head of the Secretariat of the Non-Aligned Movement Esfandiyar Rahim-Mashaei, have not been approved by the Council.

Zitat:Mashaei’s campaign office to ask Guardian Council to revise decision
Wed May 22, 2013 2:16AM GMT

The election campaign office of Esfandiyar Rahim-Mashaei, who was not approved by Iran’s Guardian Council to run in the upcoming presidential election, says it will pursue the matter through legal channels.

In a statement issued late on Tuesday, the campaign office said that it will use “the full legal capacity of the country" to appeal to the Guardian Council to revise and eliminate possible ambiguities in its decision, IRNA reported.

The statement also asked that “President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as the executor of the Constitution, take action to remove probable restrictions in this regard.”

In addition, it called on the supporters of Rahim-Mashaei, who is a top aide of President Ahmadinejad, to organize their activities based on legal methods in order to dishearten the enemies of the Islamic Revolution and the Iranian nation.
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Zitat:Streit um Präsidentschaftskandidat: Ahmadinedschad bietet Wächterrat die Stirn
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Ahmadinedschad und Maschai sind die prominentesten Vertreter einer religiös-politischen Strömung in Iran, die den Einfluss des schiitischen Klerus zurückdrängen will. Diese Haltung ist eine Provokation für das religiöse Establishment um Chamenei.
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Zitat:22. Mai 2013 19:54
Präsidentschaftswahl in Iran
Reformer auf dem Rückzug
Iran steckt in einer Systemkrise. Mittel- und Oberschicht wenden sich ab von der Regierung, nur die Armen stehen noch zum Kleriker-Regime. In dieser Lage versucht der geistliche Führer Chamenei jedes Risiko auszuschließen - bei der anstehenden Präsidentschaftswahl gilt nur ein Kandidat als reformorientiert.
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Iranian presidential candidate, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has criticized the growing poverty and discrimination in the Iranian society, calling for national unity to encounter the phenomenon.

In a televised speech on Wednesday night, Qalibaf, currently the mayor of Tehran, noted, “We need concord and we need national solidarity for a sweeping movement.”

“If we fail to eliminate this discrimination and poverty, it will not be possible for us to achieve solidarity and concord. Unfortunately, class differences have increased compared with the past,” the presidential candidate pointed out.
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30 May

IRAN (incl. related/non-naval)
The Iranian Deputy Industry, Mine and Trade Minister and the Indonesian Deputy Foreign Minister signed a trade agreement between the two countries … overall Iran-Indonesia trade value put at over one billion dollars.

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Zitat:Iran reformists may urge Aref to quit presidential race
Fri May 31, 2013 12:59PM GMT

Reformist groups and factions have joined forces to pick just one frontrunner for the upcoming presidential race in Iran.
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The idea is to ask presidential candidate Mohammad Reza Aref to step aside in favor of Hassan Rohani, in a bid to avoid vote splitting.
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Zitat:Iran presidential candidates take part in first televised debate
Fri May 31, 2013 1:5PM GMT

Iran presidential candidates have held their first televised debate, discussing their economic plans ahead of the upcoming presidential poll.
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Zitat:16 Iranian pilgrims killed in Baquba bomb attack
Fri Jun 7, 2013 10:50AM GMT

Sixteen Iranians are among several pilgrims killed in a terrorist bomb attack that hit their convoy near the Iraqi city of Baquba, north of the capital Baghdad.

The incident occurred on Friday morning when an explosive-laden vehicle detonated in Muqdadiyah, which is located about 90 kilometers north of Baghdad.

Nearly 20 people were killed when the blast ripped through the bus as the vehicle packed with pilgrims was heading for the holy city of Najaf.
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Zitat:Iranian candidates hold final live debate on domestic, foreign policy
Fri Jun 7, 2013 11:47AM GMT

Iran presidential candidates have held their third and final live debate on television, discussing their domestic and foreign policies ahead of the upcoming presidential poll.
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Zitat:Iranians prepare for city and village council elections
Fri Jun 7, 2013 10:16PM GMT

The Iranian people will go to the polls for the city and village council elections, which will be held with the country’s 11th presidential election on June 14, Press TV reports.
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Over 200,000 candidates have been qualified by a parliamentary committee to run for the local elections.

The city and village Islamic councils are local establishments that are elected by public vote in all cities and villages across the country. Council members in each city or village are elected for a four-year term.
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Zitat:Rohani Gains As Ghalibaf Continues Slide
Jun 11 2013

This survey was conducted as part of iPOS' daily tracking polls of Iran's presidential election on June 7-10, 2013.
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iPOS results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of our daily presidential tracking poll with a random sample of 1,067 Iranian adults aged 18 and older currently residing in Iran.
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Based on our sample, we can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ± 3 percentage point.

Zitat:Iran: Important project to transfer a 10 km rail line underground in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran

It is nearly 60 years since trains have been running along the Tehran-Tabriz route...causing air pollution, sound pollution, potential train collisions with pedestrians and cars, and many other reasons – are the motives for transferring the 10-km Tehran-Tabriz rail line underground.
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The 10 km route includes an 8 km tunnel and 2 km of entrance and exit slopes. After its completion, a piece of ground as large as 260,000 square metres will be available for Tehran urban space
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This tunnel has the widest section in the Middle-East benefiting from modern air conditioning for one of the longest urban tunnels, modern transport control from advanced control rooms, updated electronic and signalling installations, fire-extinguishing facilities and preventive actions for all kinds of danger or accidents, considering all safety measures including emergency procedures.

Construction of this project has been accompanied by the creation of cultural and social venues, libraries, a garden museum, green belt, shopping malls and economic shopping gardens that enhance the image of the regions and the exuberance of the surrounding areas.
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Zitat:Letzter Reformer gibt auf
Rückzug kurz vor der Wahl: Reformer Aref

Wenige Tage vor der iranischen Präsidentenwahl hat der letzte verbliebene Kandidat der Reformer seinen Rückzug erklärt. Der frühere Vizepräsident Mohammed Resa Aref sagte zur Begründung, er folge damit einer Aufforderung des früheren reformorientierten Präsidenten Mohammed Chatami.

Dieser habe ihm mitgeteilt, dass er "als Chef der Reformbewegung" seine Kandidatur nicht mehr für "zweckdienlich" halte. Angesichts dieser Erklärung und der Erfahrungen aus zwei vergangenen Präsidentenwahlen trete er nicht mehr zur Wahl an.

Er profitiert vom Rückzug: Hassan Rohani

Mit dem Rückzug soll offenbar der gemäßigte Präsidentschaftskandidat Hassan Rohani unterstützt werden.
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