- The candidates will officially begin their campaign later.
- The Iranian elections will be held on June 28.
- The Council disqualifies Ahmadinejad and four women.
DUBAI: Iran's Guardian Council, which oversees elections and legislation, has disqualified Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and issued the names of six candidates approved to run for president in snap elections to be held later this month following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, Iranian media reported. Sunday.
On the list are Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, speaker of Iran's hardline parliament and former Revolutionary Guard commander, Saeed Jalili, a conservative who was chief nuclear negotiator and headed the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for four years, and Tehran's conservative mayor, Alireza Zakani, media reported. .
The list, announced on state television by the Electoral Office spokesman, also includes Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist lawmaker, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a hardliner and former interior minister, and Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, a conservative politician.
“With the announcement of the final list of candidates, their electoral activities officially begin,” state television reported.
The elections will take place on June 28.
The council disqualified former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, a prominent conservative, state media said.
In a Sunday post on social media site X, Zakani said he would “compete until the end to continue the path of” Raisi.
According to Iran's electoral law, the campaign should officially begin from Sunday until 24 hours before the elections.
Others, including moderate former parliament speaker Ali Larijani and Vahid Haghanian, a former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, were also barred from running for office.
Four women had also registered their candidacy but were disqualified, as has happened in every presidential election since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Iran's presidential election was originally scheduled for 2025, but was brought forward following Raisi's unexpected death on May 19.
