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Iran has opened a five-day registration period for hopefuls wanting to run in the June 28 presidential election to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this month along with seven other people. The election comes as Iran grapples with the aftermath of the May 19 crash, as well as heightened tensions between Tehran and the United States, and protests including those over the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini that have swept the country.
That is likely to have been a sign of voters’ discontent with both a hardline cleric sanctioned by the US in part over his involvement in mass executions in 1988, and Iran’s Shiite theocracy over four decades after its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Who will run — and potentially be accepted — remains in question. The country’s acting president, Mohammad Mokhber, a previously behind-the-scenes bureaucrat, could be a front-runner, because he has already been seen meeting Ayatollah Khamenei.
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