Iran conservatives hold primary in hunt for candidate

Iran's conservatives announced a shortlist of five presidential candidates on Thursday as they experimented with their first-ever democratic primary in a bid to find a leader to challenge President Hassan Rouhani.Fearing another defeat at the hands of the moderate president in next month's election, a new alliance called the Popular Front of Revolutionary Forces hopes to unite conservatives around a single figure.Some 3,000 delegates gathered at an exhibition centre on Tehran's outskirts to vote