The final list of candidates for the presidential elections in Iran
The Guardian Council announced the completion of the list of those eligible to run for the presidential elections in Iran from among nearly 80 Iranians who submitted their applications for candidacy for the presidential elections scheduled for June 28.
The Guardian Council spokesman, Hadi Tahan Nazif, said that "the council sent the results of the study of the eligibility of candidates for the presidential elections to the Ministry of Interior."
Presidential elections in Iran
Nazif wrote in a tweet on the "X" platform that "with the completion of the verification of the eligibility of candidates for the fourteenth term of the presidential elections in the Guardian Council, the list of qualified candidates has been sent to the Ministry of Interior."
The Ministry of Interior announced the names of the qualified candidates for the fourteenth term of the presidential elections as follows:
1- Masoud Pezeshkian
2- Mostafa Pourmohammadi
3- Saeed Jalili
4- Alireza Zakani
5- Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi
6- Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.
So who are the candidates?
Masoud Pezeshkian
He is a member of the parliament from Tabriz, a reformist and moderate, and announced his candidacy. He was also present in the eighth and ninth sessions of parliament.
In the tenth term, he was the first deputy speaker of the parliament, and served as the Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education in the eighth government.
Mostafa Pourmohammadi
He is an Iranian cleric, lawyer and politician. He was the Minister of Justice in the first session of President Rouhani's government from August 15, 2013 to August 20, 2017.
Saeed Jalili
He was born on September 9, 1965 in the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran. He studied at the University of Science and Technology in Tehran, and obtained a doctorate in political science from Imam Sadeq University in Tehran.
1980 - 1988.. He participated in the war on Iraq after interrupting his studies to participate in it. 1986.. He assumed the responsibility of commanding the 21st Brigade of the Revolutionary Guards. He was injured in his right leg during an operation called the Fifth Karbala by the Revolutionary Guards. He is fluent in English and Arabic. He ran for the Iranian presidency twice in 2013 and 2021. He is a member of the Strategic Council for Foreign Relations of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
He is a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and the Supreme Leader’s representative in the Supreme National Security Council. He is a former member of the Revolutionary Guards and is seen as a hardline loyalist of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He was the chief Iranian negotiator during the Ahmadinejad government. He is considered one of the prominent candidates to succeed Raisi in the upcoming elections and stepped down in favor of Raisi in the last elections.
Ali Reza Zakani
A fundamentalist politician born on March 3, 1965 in the Iranian capital Tehran, and is currently the mayor of the city. He is a physician with a degree in nuclear medicine and served as the head of the Basij student organization. He headed the Research Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and was known for his prominent role as a former legislator.
He served as a representative of Tehran in the seventh, eighth and ninth sessions of the State Consultative Assembly, and was a representative of Qom in the eleventh session. He served as the head of the parliamentary committee for the nuclear agreement.
He ran in 3 previous elections, in 2013 and 2017, and was disqualified by the Guardian Council in both rounds, but withdrew in 2021 in favor of the late President Ebrahim Raisi.
Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh
Iranian fundamentalist physician and politician, born on April 14, 1971. He was elected as a member of the Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly for the city of Mashhad in the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh sessions.
A member of the Islamic Revolution Steadfastness Front, one of the most hardline Iranian fundamentalist parties, and its official spokesperson.
In 2021, he ran for the Iranian presidential elections, and his candidacy was approved by the Guardian Council on May 25, 2021. He was on a list of seven candidates competing to succeed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in the elections won by the late President Ebrahim Raisi.
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf
He is the current speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards. He ran for president twice and failed and was forced to withdraw his candidacy for the third time to avoid dividing the conservative vote.
Born in 1961 in Mashhad, he joined the Revolutionary Guards after the Khomeini revolution. During the Iran-Iraq War, he was appointed commander of the Imam Reza Brigade. During the Iraq War, Qalibaf faced accusations of using children and schoolchildren to discover minefields.
In 1994, he was appointed commander of the Khatam al-Anbia Construction Headquarters, one of the economic arms of the Revolutionary Guards, and then commander of the Revolutionary Guards Air Force by order of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in 1997.
Qalibaf's relationship with Khamenei paved the way for him to become head of the police in 1999, during which time he was subjected to mass arrests and detentions of cultural activists, journalists, artists, and civil society activists.
