The previous Revolutionary Guard common additionally desires to be president of Iran

In Iran, the speaker of the parliament Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has additionally introduced his candidacy for the June 28 presidential elections. He’s a conservative veteran with sturdy ties to the Paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Yesterday, former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad introduced himself as a presidential candidate.

Qalibaf was the top of Iran’s police, the top of the Revolutionary Guards air drive and the mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017. He made a reputation for himself as a younger soldier within the Iraq-Iran conflict within the Eighties and was not ‘ lengthy till the division was managed. As a common within the highly effective Revolutionary Guards, he supported the federal government’s crackdown on pupil demonstrations in 1999.

Candidates should nonetheless register for the presidential election. On June 11, the Guardian Council, a bunch of twelve males led by Ayatollah Khamenei, will announce who can take part. Candidates who need to implement radical modifications often would not have the chance. Ayatollah Khamenei (85) has the ultimate say in essential state affairs in Iran.

Ebrahim Raisi, a former very conservative president, died final month with seven others in a helicopter crash.

Different candidates who’ve already registered embrace former parliament speaker Ali Larijani, a conservative with good relations with reasonable former President Rouhani, and a former chief of ‘ central banker Abdolnasser Hemmati, who was additionally a candidate in 2021. The present president Mohammad Mokhber has additionally been introduced as a candidate.