After President Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash, six candidates, including parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, have been approved to run for president on June 28.
The Watchman Gathering, an established verifying body, supported previous atomic mediator Saeed Jalili and Tehran City hall leader Alireza Zakani to run, yet 74 others were not, denoting one more political race with wide exclusion of up-and-comers. Ghalibaf, 62, is a former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) air force.
Prior to that, he served as chief of police and mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017 and was speaker of parliament for four years.
He ran for president in 2005, 2013, and 2017, but lost to Raisi in the end. Jalili, who is Preeminent Pioneer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s immediate agent to the country’s Incomparable Public safety Gathering, pulled out from the 2021 political race for Raisi, who won practically unchallenged.
Generally conspicuous among those precluded are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the egalitarian ex-president, as well as moderate competitor and previous three-time parliament speaker Ali Larijani – both of whom didn’t fit the bill to run in 2021 also. Iran was scheduled to have its official political decision in 2025, however the vote was presented after Raisi passed on May 19 in a helicopter crash in northern Iran.
The 63-year-old Raisi was supposed to get one more term in office and was a top name related with the progression of Iran’s 85-year-old preeminent pioneer. The crash also claimed the lives of seven other people, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. The army said in a preliminary report last month that it did not happen because of criminal activity.
After withdrawing from the 2021 race in favor of Raisi, Tehran mayor Zakani expressed his desire to “continue the path” of the late president in a post on X following his qualification on Sunday. Parliamentarian Masoud Pezeshkian, previous inside and equity serve Mostafa Pourmohammadi, and Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, the top of Iran’s Saints Establishment, cap the rundown of the six supported applicants.
The only candidate who represents Iran’s moderate and reformist political landscape is 70-year-old Pezeshkian, a veteran five-term legislator and former health minister. Eshaq Jahangiri, the previous first VP in the organization of moderate President Hassan Rouhani, was among those excluded by the Gatekeeper Committee, alongside previous national bank boss Abdolnaser Hemmati, who had been permitted to run in 2021 and got 8% of the complete vote, or 2.42 million votes.
The other candidates are from conservative and hardline political factions, which have become more prominent since Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers fell apart after the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018. Ghazizadeh was likewise endorsed in 2021 and gotten 3.45 percent, or under 1,000,000 votes.
Raisi won the administration with very nearly 18 million decisions in favor of a 48.8 percent turnout. The atomic program and Iran’s economy tested by high expansion and approvals are supposed to be a portion of the issues to be examined during five rounds of four-hour discusses that state TV intends to have in the approached the political race.
Since 2020, participation in presidential and parliamentary elections has been steadily declining. The parliamentary election in March 2024 saw 41% participation, the lowest level since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
