{"id":80549,"date":"2020-02-23T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T09:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=80549"},"modified":"2020-02-23T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T09:39:52","slug":"vote-counting-begins-in-irans-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/vote-counting-begins-in-irans-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote counting begins in Iran&#8217;s parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iran started counting votes on Saturday after its parliamentary election in which conservative allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are likely to gain a sizeable majority based on partial results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian authorities are yet to announce the turnout in the February 21 election for the 290-seat parliament, but some early results announced by the Ministry of Interior indicated that the loyalists to Khamenei were set for gains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first such poll since the US renewed sanctions over Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme, battering its economy. Observers say authorities were hoping for a high voter turnout as a sign of support for the regime. The field of candidates running in the election was dominated by conservatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 16,000 contenders &#8211; including 90 mostly reformist members of the current Majlis were disqualified from standing by the Guardian Council, a vetting committee loyal to Khamenei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday the US imposed sanctions on five members of the Council for preventing the Iranian people from freely choosing their leaders.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran started counting votes on Saturday after its parliamentary election in which conservative allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are likely to gain a sizeable majority based on partial results. Iranian authorities are yet to announce the turnout in the February 21 election for the 290-seat parliament, but some early results announced by the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80551,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549\/revisions\/80551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}