2024-06-11 07:56:41
Dubai: Iran’s Guardian Council on Sunday authorized the nation’s hardline parliament speaker and 5 others to run within the nation’s June 28 presidential election, which comes after a helicopter crash through which President Ibrahim Raisi and 7 others had been killed. The council has as soon as once more barred former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an extremist populist recognized for his crackdown after his disputed re-election in 2009, from working for re-election.
The council’s resolution marks the beginning of a short two-week marketing campaign to exchange Raisi, a hardline supporter of Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was as soon as touted as a possible successor to the 85-year-old cleric. The Guardian Council is a gaggle of clerics and jurists headed by Khamenei.
The council’s number of candidates seems to offer Iran’s Shi’ite theocracy hope that the elections will go easily, given the report low voter turnout in latest elections and the nation’s quickly increasing nuclear program and the tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict. The council has maintained its earlier stance of not accepting a lady or anybody who requires radical modifications to the nation’s governance.