Iran\u2019s hardline former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered to run for president in the country\u2019s June 28 election, organized after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month, Iran\u2019s state television reported on Sunday.
\nHowever, he could be barred from the race as the country\u2019s cleric-led Guardian Council will vet candidates, and publish the list of qualified ones on June 11.<\/p>\n
Ahmadinejad, a former member of Iran\u2019s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was first elected as Iran\u2019s president in 2005 and stepped down because of term limits in 2013.<\/p>\n
He was barred from standing in the 2017 election by the Guardian Council, a year after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned him that entering was \u201cnot in his interest and that of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
A rift developed between the two after Ahmadinejad explicitly advocated checks on Khamenei\u2019s ultimate authority.<\/p>\n
In 2018, in rare criticism directed at Khamenei, Ahmadinejad wrote to him calling for \u201cfree\u201d elections.<\/p>\n
Khamenei had backed Ahmadinejad after his 2009 re-election triggered protests in which dozens of people were killed and hundreds arrested, rattling the ruling theocracy, before security forces led by the IRGC stamped out the unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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