US EditionIran OKs 6 candidates for presidential race, but again blocks Ahmadinejad
- Only six out of 80 initial candidates were approved by Iran's Guardian Council, which included four women who were not approved.
- Following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's Guardian Council approved the hard-line parliament speaker and five others to run in the June 28 presidential election.
- The Guardian Council barred former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known for a disputed 2009 re-election crackdown, from running, starting a two-week campaign for Raisi's replacement.
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Iran's Guardian Council, made up of fundamentalist clerics who decide who can run in the country's elections, has determined that six of the eighty candidates in the race to replace Ebrahim Raisi can run in the election, CNN reports. The overwhelming majority of them are hardline extremists of the regime.
Names of Iran's presidential elections candidates announced
The names of the candidates of Iran's upcoming presidential elections were announced by the Ministry of Interior on Sunday, Iran's Mehr News Agency.Masoud Pezeshkian, Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, Saeed Jalili, Alireza Zakani, Amirhossein Qazizadeh Hashemi, and
The Board of Guardians has not publicly justified its choices. In 2021, only seven candidates were selected, which allowed the election of the then conservative and ultraconservative candidate,
Iran Approves Six Candidates to Run for President
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Tasnim News Agency Iran’s Guardian Council, which oversees elections and legislation, has approved six candidates to run for president in snap elections to be held later this month after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, Iran’s State TV reported on Sunday. On the list are Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s hardline parliament speaker and former Revoluti…
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