Iran’s Presidential elections, under the supervision of the Guardian Council, have finalized the approval of six candidates for the imminent snap elections scheduled later this month.
The decision comes in the wake of President Ebrahim Raisi’s untimely demise in a helicopter crash, as announced by Iran’s State TV on Sunday.
The list of presidential candidates includes Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s hardline parliament speaker and former Revolutionary Guards commander, Saeed Jalili, a conservative who previously served as chief nuclear negotiator and headed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office for four years, and Alireza Zakani, Tehran’s conservative mayor, as per State TV.
The spokesperson from the election office, as announced on state TV, also revealed Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist lawmaker; Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a hardliner and former interior minister; and Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, a conservative politician, among the candidates.
Former hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and prominent conservative former parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani were disqualified from the presidential race, according to state media.
