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List of registered candidates for Iran presidential poll
TEHRAN, May 15, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – A five-day registration period for
Iran’s June 18 presidential election ended on Saturday, with more than
300 people signing up — mostly political unknowns.
Only a small number will be allowed to run after passing a validation
process by the Guardian Council, an unelected body responsible for
overseeing elections.
According to the official calendar, the council is set to announce
the final names on May 26-27.
Below is a list of better-known candidates:
– Mohammad Abbasi, ex-minister (conservative)
– Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, MP, ex-chief of the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran (ultraconservative)
– Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president from 2005-2013 (ultraconservative)
– Abbas Akhoundi, ex-minister (reformist)
– Hossein Dehqan, ex-minister, advisor to supreme leader (conservative)
– Saeed Jalili, ex-secretary of Supreme National Security Council
(ultraconservative)
– Rostam Ghasemi, ex-minister (ultraconservative)
– Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi, MP (ultraconservative)
– Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of Tehran City Council (reformist)
– Abdolnasser Hemmati, Central Bank governor (reformist)
– Shamsodin Hosseini, MP (conservative)
– Eshaq Jahangiri, first vice-president (reformist)
– Ali Larijani, advisor to supreme leader, ex-parliament speaker
from 2008-2020, presidential candidate in 2005 (moderate conservative)
– Mohsen Mehralizadeh, ex-vice president, candidate in 2005 (reformist)
– Saeed Mohammad, Revolutionary Guards general (ultraconservative)
– Ali Motahari, ex-MP (independent)
– Masoud Pezeshkian, MP, ex-minister (reformist)
– Ebrahim Raisi, judiciary chief, candidate in 2017 (ultraconservative)
– Mohsen Rezai, secretary of Expediency Council, ex-Revolutionary
Guards commander from 1981-1997, candidate in 2005, 2009 and 2017
(ultraconservative)
– Mahmoud Sadeghi, ex-MP (reformist)
– Mohammad Shariatmadari, labour minister (reformist)
– Zahra Shojaei, ex-presidential aide for women’s affairs (reformist)
– Hassan Sobhani, ex-MP (moderate conservative)
– Mostafa Tajzadeh, ex-deputy minister (reformist)
– Alireza Zakani, MP (ultraconservative)
– Ezzatollah Zarghami, ex-state TV chief (conservative)
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