Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s president and seven ...
A staff of elections headquarters sits beside a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during the registration of candidates for the June 28 presidential election at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 1, 2024. The five-day registration period will close on Tuesday. The populist former leader's registration puts pressure on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He descended the stairs at the ministry, showing his passport as is custom to dozens of photographers and video journalists on hand for the registration process. As a woman processed his candidacy, he sat, turned to the journalists, nodding and smiling for the cameras. He was expected to give remarks after concluding his registration.Who else will seek to run remains in question.
Abroad, he became a caricature of Western perceptions of the Islamic Republic’s worst attribute, questioning the Holocaust, insisting Iran had no gay or lesbian citizens and hinting Iran could build a nuclear weapon if it chose to do so.
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