Iran presidential election: Hardliners dominate approved candidates list
Iran's Guardian Council has approved seven mostly hard-line candidates for next month's presidential election and barred several prominent contenders./ Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi will now be seen as the clear frontrunner to succeed Hassan Rouhani, a moderate./ Mr Raisi is a cleric with close ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei./ Eshaq Jahangiri, Mr Rouhani's first vice-president, and Ali Larijani, a conservative former speaker of parliament, were not allowed to run./ "The disqualification of many qualified people [is] a serious ...
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