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Dubai. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Qalibaf registered on Monday for the June 28 presidential election, the last day for candidates interested in entering the race. He was preceded by hardline former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday. The Guardian Council will consider the names of those running for the presidency and release a list.
With the entry of Mohammad Qalibaf, a prominent candidate with close ties to the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has joined the vote to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash along with seven others on May 19. The election is taking place amid rising tensions between Iran and the West.
62-year-old Qalibaf was recently re-elected as speaker. Speaking to reporters, he said he would continue on the path of Raisi and General Qassem Soleimani. He said that if I had not presented myself as a candidate, the work we have started in the last few years to solve the economic problems of the people and which is reaching results would not have been completed.
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