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Three candidates drop out of Iran's presidential election
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| Last Edited | Bojicat Jun 17, 2021 09:22am |
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| Author | The National News - MENA |
| News Date | Thursday, June 17, 2021 03:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Reformist Mohsen Mehralizadeh, hardliner Alireza Zakani and conservative Saeed Jalili dropped out of Iran’s presidential race.
Mr Mehralizadeh was the only reformist candidate in the upcoming election. He gave his resignation letter to the Interior Ministry, state-run news agency Irna said.
Mr Mehralizadeh previously served as governor in two Iranian provinces. He was also the vice president in charge of physical education under reformist president Mohammad Khatami and a deputy in the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran. He ran in the 2005 election, coming last.
Mr Zakani, the most conservative of the candidates, said he would support front-runner Ebrahim Raisi, also a hardliner. "I believe him to be qualified and will vote for him, and I hope that fundamental reforms take place in the country with him being elected," Mr Zakani said
A former veteran of the Iran-Iraq war and a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' affiliated volunteer Basij militia, he was disqualified in 2013 and 2017 from running for president. Mr Raisi said of Zakani: "I sincerely thank my dear brother, Dr Alireza Zakani, who decided to run in the election based on his revolutionary duty ... today he decided responsibly."
Mr Jalili, earlier the top nuclear negotiator for former hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, endorsed hardliner and front runner Mr Raisi. |
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