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Iran's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race.

Iranian men register their candidacy for the June presidential election at the Interior Ministry in Tehran earlier this month.

The U.S. is trying to stop the gold rush to Iran in a bid to undermine the Islamic Republic's plummeting currency, but critics say the move is more likely to hurt ordinary citizens than the rogue regime's leadership.

At the crack of dawn on Sunday morning, Iran hanged two Iranian men for allegedly being agent spies of the U.S. CIA and the .

Iranians use computers at a cybercafe in the center of the Iranian capital Tehran on May 14, 2013.

The Supreme Court is taking a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open meetings in an upstate New York town.

"I will vote," says Arash, a university student who has just turned 18. "I don't know any of the real candidates yet but I will vote, because I can.

Outgoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his close ally and would-be successor Esfiandiar Mashaei greet supporters after registering Mashaei's candidacy for the presidential election on June 14.

A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned that his forces will be on watch for possible unrest after next month's presidential election, calling the outcome "unpredictable" and sending the strongest message yet against any attempts to revive street protests, media reported on Sunday.

Research Fellow of the Institute of Literature named after Nizami of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, orientalist Khalida Khalid and her assistant Shamkhal Huseynov detained in Iran have been released, member of Milli Majlis , a member of the delegation being in Iran with an official visit Eldar Ibragimov told Trend.

The news agency did not provide additional information about the men or identify the location where the executions were carried out.

In a political order where elderly men have long been considered the most fit leaders, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's age - 78 - is the latest reason his detractors say he should not be allowed to run for president of Iran.

Netanyahu presented with gov't report finding that France 2 footage shows 12-year-old icon of second intifada was not hit with IDF bullets; claims French TV station edited footage to give misleading impression.

Smarter to walk? The head of the powerful Guardians Council, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati , launched a broadside on ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's candidacy by suggesting a Mercedes is unpresidential.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations.

President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr.

TEHRAN Iran supports any action that Turkey takes to protect its unity and solidarity, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said at a press conference in the Iranian consulate in Istanbul on Friday.

TEHRAN On Saturday, a number of Iranian MPs criticized the government for buying wheat from farmers at a low price, saying it has encouraged Iraqi merchants to buy wheat from Iranian farmers at a higher price.

TEHRAN In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and presidential candidate has said that Iran does not give any credibility to Israel, noting the red line over Tehran's nuclear program is set not by Israel but by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regulations.

The approval of a Be'er Tuviya natural gas plant was not on the meeting's schedule, the residents complained.