‘List of hope’ coalition with moderates aims to squeeze out hardliners and select advantage of momentum created by Hassan Rouhani’s presidencyIranians move to the polls on Friday for two major elections after a week of fierce campaigning between conservatives desperate to maintain their influence over the country’s political landscape and their reformist rivals seeking a comeback. The first votes held since the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement will elect new members of Iran’s 290-seat parliament,or Majlis, and 88 clergy for the influential assembly of experts, or which appoints the next supreme leader. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com