The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the Supreme Leader. The first election was held in 1980 and was won by Abulhassan Banisadr. Masoud Pezeshkian currently serves as the President Of Iran, after being elected in the 2024 Iranian presidential election and being officially endorsed by the Supreme Leader.
Rustam Nurgaliyevich Minnikhanov is a Russian politician who has served as the head of Tatarstan, a federal subject of Russia, since 2010.
The nations of and Iran and Mexico established diplomatic relations in 1964. Both nations are members of the Group of 15, Group of 24, and the United Nations.
Iran–Kenya relations are bilateral relations between Iran and Kenya.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as foreign minister of Iran from 2021 until his death in 2024. He was the deputy foreign minister for Arab and African Affairs between 2011 and 2016.
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 19 May 2017, the twelfth of such elections. Local elections were held simultaneously.
SayyidEbrahim Raisolsadati, better known as Ebrahim Raisi, was an Iranian politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. He was a Muslim jurist and part of the Principlist group.
The Ebrahim Raisi 2017 presidential campaign began when Ebrahim Raisi, chairman of the Astan Quds Razavi, launched his campaign for the 2017 presidential election. Raisi's campaign pursued a populist agenda.
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 18 June 2021, the thirteenth since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Ebrahim Raisi, the then Chief Justice of Iran, was declared the winner in a highly controversial election. The election began with the mass disqualification of popular candidates by the Guardian Council, and broke records of the lowest turnout in Iranian electoral history, as well as had the highest share of protest blank, invalid and lost votes despite a declaration by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, considering protest voting religiously forbidden (haraam) as it would "weaken the regime." Reporters Without Borders reported 42 cases of journalists being summoned or threatened for writing about candidates, and the chief of the police threatened people who discouraged others to vote.
Mohammad Mokhber is an Iranian politician who became acting president of Iran after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in the Varzaqan helicopter crash on 19 May 2024. Mokhber was also the 7th First Vice President of Iran from 2021 to 2024. He is also the current member of the Expediency Discernment Council.
Maximum pressure campaign refers to the intensified sanctions against Iran by the Trump administration after the United States exited the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018. The campaign was aimed at pressuring Iran to renegotiate the JCPOA, adding more restrictions on Iran's nuclear program and expanding the scope of the agreement to cover Iran's ballistic missiles as well as other regional activities. This strategy was faced by Iran's counter pressure policy to thwart the U.S. maximum pressure campaign.
Eisa Zarepour is an Iranian conservative politician who has been served as Minister of Information and Communications Technology from 2021 to 2024 in the government of President Ebrahim Raisi.
Ehsan Khandozi is an Iranian economist and politician who has been served as the minister of economic and financial affairs from 2021 to 2024.
Javad Owji is an Iranian oil engineer and politician who served as the Minister of Petroleum of Iran from 2021 to 2024.
Amin Hossein Rahimi is an Iranian politician. He served in the majlis from 2008 and to 2012 and has been the minister of justice since 25 August 2021.
Ensieh Khazali or Ensieh Khaz'ali is an Iranian politician and Vice President for Women and Family Affairs of the President of Iran in the 13th government.
Meysam Latifi is an Iranian politician and Vice President and Head of the Administrative and Recruitment Affairs Organisation of Iran. He graduated PhD in human resource management.
Mohammad Eslami is the Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran in the government of Hassan Rouhani.
The 2022 SCO summit was the 22nd annual summit of heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held between 15 and 16 September 2022 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
