(3 Jun 2024)
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Tehran, Iran – 3 June 2024
1. Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf arriving inside Interior Ministry
2. Various of Qalibaf holding ID up to media
3. Qalibaf seated, making victory gesture
4. Various of Qalibaf signing paperwork
5. Media, pan to Qalibaf
6. Qalibaf showing inked finger
7. Qalibaf arriving for briefing
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iranian parliament speaker and presidential candidate:
"If I don’t register for this election, the work we have started towards resolving the economic issues of the people in the popular government and the revolutionary parliament, which is now at the stage of fruition, will remain unfinished."
9. Qalibaf leaving
10. Former Iranian vice president Eshaq Jahangiri arriving inside Interior Ministry
11. Various of Jahangari showing ID to media
12. Various of Jahangari seated gesturing to media
13. Jahangari signing paperwork
14. Jahangari arriving for briefing
15. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Eshaq Jahangiri, former Iranian vice president and presidential candidate:
"I will run (for president) to attract votes form Iranians that seek a better life, the removal of sanctions, capable managers, extensive and sustainable development, a flourishing economy and less inequality."
16. Wide of briefing with Jahangari
STORYLINE:
Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker and a former vice president registered on Monday as candidates for this month’s presidential election, the last day for aspirants to enter the race.
Iran will go to the polls on June 28 to elect a successor to Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.
The entry of Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf brings a prominent candidate with close ties to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard into the vote.
Qalibaf, 62, initially became speaker following a string of failed presidential bids and 12 years as the leader of Iran’s capital city, during which he built onto Tehran’s subway and supported the construction of modern high-rises.
Also entering for a place on the ballot was former vice president Eshaq Jahangiri, who served under Raisi’s predecessor Hassan Rouhani.
The election comes at a time of heightened tensions between Iran and the West over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, its arming of Russia in that country’s war on Ukraine and its wide-reaching crackdowns on dissent.
Meanwhile, Iran’s support of militia proxy forces throughout the wider Middle East have been in increased focus as Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack ships in the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
AP video shot by Saeed Sarmadi
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