The Iranian regime’s election headquarters announced that six of the individuals who registered for the fourteenth presidential election, have been “qualified.” The candidates are Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Masoud Pezeshkian, Saeed Jalili, Alireza Zakani, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi.
The upcoming election has been described by users and political observers with terms such as “demonstrative military parade,” “electoral circus,” “stand-up comedy,” and “comedy show.”
According to Mohsen Eslami, the spokesman for the Iranian regime’s election headquarters, on Sunday, June 9, 80 people had registered for candidacy in the election that is supposed to determine Ebrahim Raisi’s successor, of which six were approved.
The Guardian Council, which had begun reviewing the qualifications of the registrants on June 4, announced the final list of approved candidates after five days on Sunday. This six-person list notably excludes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of the Iranian regime, Ali Larijani, the former speaker of the parliament, and Eshaq Jahangiri, the former first vice president.
The fourteenth presidential election, which is being held early due to the death of Ebrahim Raisi, is referred to by some government officials as “political absurdity” and “comedic display.”
Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime, warned the candidates participating in this election against “slander and mudslinging,” as he stated that it would “damage national dignity.”
There are many signs that indicate the elections and its candidates are is orchestrated around Khamenei’s death and succession, and the preservation of the regime. The candidates, most of whom have a background in repression and terrorism, have been selected as the regime is ramping up repression, purging its ranks from officials who are not completely loyal to Khamenei, and is doubling down on its terrorist and nuclear activities.
Mostafa Pourmohammadi was one of the members of the Death Committee, who in the summer of 1988 issued the death sentence for more than 30,000 political prisoners. Most of these prisoners were members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). Many of these prisoners had completed their sentences or were serving their terms.
It is worth mentioning that Ebrahim Raisi, the former president of the Iranian regime who was killed in a helicopter crash, was another member of this committee.
