(31 May 2024)
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Tehran – 31 May 2024
1. Former parliament speaker Ali Larijani arriving at Interior Ministry
2. Various of Larijani showing his ID to media
3. Various of Larijani with election official
4. Various of Larijani waiting
5. Various of Larijani signing paperwork
6. Larijani arriving at news conference
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ali Larijani, former parliament speaker and presidential candidate:
"Some countries were in a way more complicated situation than we are in, but they managed to resolve it. While relying on domestic capabilities, we should also use international experiences."
8. Wide of news conference
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ali Larijani, presidential candidate:
"Resolving the issue of sanctions for economic breakthrough will be a priority in (my) diplomacy."
10. Pan left from journalists to former Iranian Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati arriving at interior ministry
11. Various of Hemmati showing his ID to media
12. Various of Hemmati with election official
13. Various of Hemmati waiting and waving at journalists
14. Hemmati arriving at news conference
15. Mid of journalists
16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Abdolnasser Hemmati, former Iranian Central Bank chief and presidential candidate:
"All my efforts will be dedicated to working with neighbors, expanding economic ties with all countries that can somehow serve our national interests, and using agile and experienced diplomacy to remove the sanctions and a breakthrough in relations with the (outside) world."
17. Hemmati leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
A former speaker of Iran’s parliament registered Friday as a possible candidate in the Islamic Republic’s June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this month with seven others.
Ali Larijani is the first high-profile candidate to register for the contest.
He and other serious contenders against Raisi had been barred from running in the 2021 election.
Larijani, 66, is viewed as a conservative within Iran’s narrow political scene.
However, he has increasingly allied himself with former President Hassan Rouhani, whose administration reached a 2015 nuclear deal with a group of world powers.
Larijani had positioned himself as a pragmatic candidate in the 2021 vote in which hard-liner Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was elected.
Larijani had posted online and made comments in recent days all but confirming he would be a candidate.
The Larijani family has long been powerful in Iran’s Shiite theocracy.
“Solving the issue of sanctions for an economic opening will be among the priorities of diplomacy” for Iran, Larijani told journalists.
Later Friday, former Iranian Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati, who also ran in the 2021 presidential election, registered.
All candidates must be approved by Iran’s 12-member Guardian Council, a panel of clerics and jurists ultimately overseen by Khamenei.
That panel has never accepted a woman or anyone calling for radical change within the country’s governance.
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