{"id":35842,"date":"2021-06-15T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35842"},"modified":"2021-06-15T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:00:34","slug":"iran-is-holding-elections-on-friday-to-choose-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35842","title":{"rendered":"Iran is holding elections on Friday to choose a new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There are seven men competing to become the ninth president of the Islamic Republic. Analysts say the disqualification of most reformist and centrist candidates has turned the election into a one-horse race, with judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi almost certain to win.<\/p>\n<p>Voters give their opinions on the candidates and whether they will cast their ballots at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-57489539\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are seven men competing to become the ninth president of the Islamic Republic. Analysts say the disqualification of most reformist and centrist candidates has turned the election into a one-horse race, with judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi almost certain to win. Voters give their opinions on the candidates and whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/118939637_p09lljnx.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}