Iran: A former commander beneath US sanctions is operating for the nation’s presidency – 2024-06-02 15:20:06

A former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, whose identify is included in US sanctions, in the present day filed his candidacy for the presidential election to be held on the finish of June, state media reported.

Like different potential candidates, Vahid Haganian will anticipate his candidacy to be accepted by the Guardian Council, a 12-jurist, conservative-controlled physique that opinions all nominations for public workplace.

Little info has been made public about Haganian’s profession within the ranks of the Guards, the Islamic Republic’s ideological military.

Like President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed when his helicopter crashed on Might 19, Haganian has been topic to US sanctions since 2019 as a result of he’s within the inside circle of Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who the US accuses of repression .

Haganian acknowledged that he’s “completely conscious of the nation’s issues”. He identified that he developed shut ties with key officers of state establishments “through the 45 years he served within the presidential administration and the workplace of the supreme chief.”

The June 28 presidential election was known as after Raisi’s loss of life.

The method of registering the candidates began on Thursday and ends on Monday.

Different candidates who’ve introduced their candidacies embrace Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani and former MP Zohreh Eliyakhian, the primary lady to enter the succession race.

Average former parliament speaker Ali Larijani, reformist former central financial institution governor Abdulnasser Hemati and ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili have additionally signed up.

The Guardian Council will announce the ultimate listing of candidates on June 11.

Within the final presidential election in 2021, the Council had excluded a number of reformist and average candidates, most notably Ali Larijani.

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