Registration of candidates opens for presidential election in Iran | Election Issues

Iran’s short presidential election has begun with a number of candidates vying for one of the country’s most popular pledges.

As of Tuesday morning, many domestic workers are sitting on computer screens, up to two meters high, to register candidates who all need to wear masks and are only allowed to do so as the country continues to tackle the fourth major wave of COVID-19. .

Registration of candidates for baptism ends at 6 a.m. local time, but those wishing to attend will have the same amount of time each day until Saturday to register and speak with the press of their opinion in this country at a critical time.

Two freedom fighters have signed on the first day. Hossein Dehghan, 64, is now a security adviser to Prime Minister Ali Hosseini Khamenei and former security minister for the first time President Hassan Rouhani. He also said he had signed up to address social issues, and promised that his potential supervisors would treat them equally.

Saeed Mohammad, 53, says he is taking a stand for himself and wants to unite the country. Brigadier General was the head of Khatam al-Anbiya’s main logistics center until last month, when he said he had resigned as president but some members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said he had been fired for “violation”.

The junior executive director was appointed as IRGC’s senior-general adviser Hossein Salami.

“I know how to avoid and alleviate the sanctions, when I make them abolished,” he said on Tuesday in connection with the sanctions imposed by the United States on the suspension of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers in 2018.

All of them appeared to be helping to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. Delegates from Iran, China, Russia, Germany, France, United Kingdom and the European Union are now in Vienna – as well as US delegates staying at another hotel – to discuss the full Iran deal. and the US.

The rest of those who signed up for Tuesday are unknown or unknown at all.

As with previous elections, a number of prominent individuals have also signed up. This year, they also included a woman who came to register on her motorcycle (women are not allowed to ride in Iran), a man who said he had come to save people in the next 20 years, and an elderly man wearing a cover and a Koran who repeatedly shouted that he wanted to follow the law.

Disagreement on selected points

According to Tasnim, an official house page that deals with legitimate people, the current lawmaker Ebrahim Raisi has recently entered the presidential race. The president, who did well against Rouhani in 2017, could be a fierce rival when it comes to running.

Parliamentary spokesman Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who also ran in the 2017 election but withdrew from supporting the President, said he had told politicians he would not run for re-election.

According to the electoral commission, more than 59 million people are eligible to vote in the June 18 election, with 1.4 million of them voting for the first time. However, most observers believe that the number of voters will be lower.

After Saturday, the Guardian Council will review the list of candidates for the post, announcing the final list by May 27.

Many supporters should be disqualified, as is the case with previous votes. No woman has been elected president and council since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Registration for baptisms on Tuesday ends at 6:00 am, but those who wish to attend will have the same amount of time each day until Saturday to register [Atta Kenare/AFP]

But internal infighting has intensified, with both the council and the president meeting at the polls.

Earlier this week, the council unanimously announced that this should be done with the aim of removing unscrupulous individuals. This included the age range of 40 to 75 years, it is necessary for them to have at least four years of seniority in senior management.

That, in the end, will replace Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, the ICT minister, who will turn 40 in September. It could also confuse reformers such as Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, former prime minister Sadeq Kharrazi, and former lawmakers Mahmoud Sadeqi and Mostafa Kavakebian.

Well-known Tajzadeh announced Tuesday via a tweet that he would register Friday morning. He also said that once elected, he would make the chief executive “accountable” and elected by the people, including “sending the IRGC to court”.

On Monday, President Rouhani ordered his interior ministry not to ignore the announcement – which some say they do not control – and to do so as before.

But the commission said it would not rule on whether the applicants would register if they failed to provide all the documents – including the lack of criminal record and the lack of opposition – as requested.