Iranian investigators rejected the sabotage version of the helicopter crash with the president and the head of the republic's foreign ministry, the statement of the General Staff of Iran reports.

The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has decided to run again for the position of the supreme government, the state television of the Islamic Republic reports. Earlier, it was known that one of the candidates in the upcoming elections will be a woman.

The Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which oversees elections, has selected 6 of the 80 candidates registered to participate in the June 28 presidential election following the unexpected death of President Ibrahim Raisi. Four women were also registered as candidates for the presidency of Iran, but they did not make it to the final list.

Early presidential elections were held in Iran today, June 28. Four candidates - three conservatives and one reformist - competed for this post in the Persian country.

Iran's Council of Ministers signed a visa cancellation letter with Tajikistan. According to this letter, citizens of Tajikistan can stay in the country without a visa for up to 30 days. For this, it is required to fly only by air, only from Dushanbe to Tehran. The visa cancellation date will be announced soon.

Voting for the second round of the presidential election has begun in Iran. In it, two candidates are competing for the presidency, 69-year-old former health minister, reformist Masoud Pezeshkiyan, and 58-year-old representative of the Iranian leader in the Supreme National Security Council, conservative Saeed Jalili. In polls conducted on July 3, 49.5 percent of participants said they would vote for the reformist candidate Pezeshkian. 43.9 percent of voters preferred the conservative candidate Said Jalili.

The second round of presidential elections in Iran ended with the victory of Masoud Pezeshkian, representative of the reformist bloc. 53.6% of voters voted for Masud Pezeshkian. The 69-year-old politician was born in the west of Iran in an ethnic Azerbaijani family.

Azerbaijan's embassy in Iran, which was closed as a result of an armed attack on January 27, 2023, started working in a new address and a new building. It was reported that the Iranian side has taken appropriate measures to ensure diplomatic security in front of the new embassy building.

"The world will witness very important changes in the next few hours," was used in a statement by Iranian state television.

The New York Times reports that Iranian law enforcement officers have arrested dozens of people, including high-ranking officials of the country's intelligence service, as part of the investigation into the death of Ismail Haniya, head of the political bureau of Hamas.