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Iranian men register their candidacy for the upcoming presidential election at the interior ministry in Tehran on May 9, 2013. Iran began a five-day registration period for candidates in Iran’s June 14 presidential election, with a string of conservative hopefuls in the running but with key reformists yet to come forward, media reports said. (AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE)


Iranian candidate list takes shape

Iranian candidate list takes shape

by | May 10, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hassan Rouhani, a reformist presidential hopeful and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005, revealed on Tuesday that before the presidential elections in 2005 “British diplomats had predicted the then-mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud...