The body supervising campaigning in the 2021 presidential election has given the President Hassan Rouhani administration eight minutes to respond to criticisms leveled by candidates during two rounds of debates.

Iran’s election authority says the Ottawa government has not allowed the setting up of polling stations in Canada in order for Iranian expats to participate in the upcoming presidential election, in breach of international norms.

Presidential candidate Sa’eed Jalili says the next administration should consider art as the key to success in other areas.

In an interview with Press TV, Presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei says Iran will not wait for any agreement in the talks on Vienna, Austria, on a potential revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, pledging that he will work instead to keep the country moving forward by activating its national economy, if he wins the June 18 election.

Presidential candidate Alireza Zakani, an outspoken critic of the 2015 nuclear deal, says he will continue negotiations with the five parties to the agreement, if he is elected, to get back the rights of the Iranian nation.

Presidential candidate Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says he has set an agenda for securing a removal the sanctions imposed on the Iranian nation.

The second debate featuring all the seven candidates running in Iran’s 2021 presidential election has been marked by less aggressive confrontations but also overly broad delineations of policy, in what some of the candidates blamed on the format of the debate.

A study by Press TV of the most prominent polls after Iran’s first presidential debate has revealed approximate but credible patterns of voter support for each of the seven candidates as well as the estimated turnout in the upcoming election.

Iranian presidential candidates wrap up a second showdown on live television, days after a first debate — which was intended to focus on economy — turned into a battlefield between two contrasting political views.

Jalili says the administration needs to seize its opportunities to establish “constructive and extensive” relations with different world states instead of keeping the country waiting for a removal of the Western sanctions or for membership of the FATF.