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Iran’s Ahmadinejad refuses to endorse other candidates
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that he won’t endorse other candidates in next month’s election, after he and his deputy were barred from running.
“We clearly announce that we have not and will not support any candidate in the upcoming elections,” he says in a letter, signed by himself and his former deputy and presidential hopeful Hamid Baghaie.
Both were barred from running on Thursday by the conservative-dominated Guardian Council, which vets candidates for public elections.
Ahmadinejad’s candidacy came against the advice of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said it would “polarize” the nation.
— AFP
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