Iran’s Guardian Council Excludes Hundreds Candidates from Running for Presidency Election

Iran’s Guardian Council has ruled to exclude hundreds of candidates who hope to rum the presidential election that will be held next June.

Sources of the council said that those who excluded did not suitable credentials.

But the council permitted forty candidates only, from 592 people, to run for the 13th election scheduled to run on June 18.

Abbas Kadahgay, a spokesman for the Guardian Council, said it is impossible to know the final number of the candidates for the presidential election.

He affirmed that the council picks a host of candidates to run for the coming election.

He went on to say that experts of the council are going to examine the credentials of 40 candidates ahead of permitting them to run for the presidential election by May 27.

The electoral campaign will launch on the next day and run for twenty days.

Observers indicate that the number of voters in Iran has estimated at 59.31 million among them 1.392 million cast ballots for the first time.

The Iranians will elect a new president to succeed the sitting one Hassan Rouhani who served for two terms and has no constitutional right to run for a new term.

The presidential election coincides with the parliamentarian elections and election of the Assembly of Experts.

The candidates for that council were registered on April 3.

Before three months of the presidential election, the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei stressed over his speech on the Persian new year (Nowruz) that this year (1400) of the Persian calendar is a sensitive important year due to many elections.

It is worth noting that Iran is still subjected to harsh sanctions imposed by the United States of America (USA).

Many rounds of talks held in Vienna, the capital city of Austria, between Iran and the international powers did result in removing these sanctions so far.