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Tehran, Iran – 18 June 2024
1. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iranian presidential candidate and parliament speaker, waving to supporters during campaign meeting
2. Qalibaf surrounded by supporters
3. Qalibaf waving
4. Supporters
5. Various of Qalibaf waving to supporters
6. Supporters
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iranian presidential candidate:
"Definitely, we will compensate for the gap between the inflation rate and wages, through raising wages and providing you with necessary goods and staples as aid in a way that your dinner table will never shrink."
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iranian presidential candidate:
"During the past 45 years since the Islamic revolution, I’ve never had a personal life. All my life was dedicated to hard work for our dear nation, our revolution and our ruling system."
10. Supporters waving flags
11. Qalibaf waving on stage
12. Qalibaf shaking hands with supporters
STORYLINE:
Hardline candidate Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf pledged on Tuesday to raise wages in an attempt to attract Iranian voters ahead of the country’s presidential elections.
Iran’s economy, struggling under sanctions from the United States and other Western nations, has emerged as the central issue in the presidential race.
"Definitely, we will compensate for the gap between the inflation rate and wages," Qalibaf, who is currently Iran’s parliament speaker, said.
"Your dinner table will never shrink," he told an audience at a campaign meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.
Six candidates are competing in the presidential election after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month.
Five of the candidates are hard-liners while the sixth candidate, lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian, 69, is a heart surgeon who has the support of some pro-reformers.
The most prominent candidate remains Qalibaf, 62, a former Tehran mayor with close ties to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
However, many remember that Qalibaf, as a former Guard general, was part of a violent crackdown on Iranian university students in 1999.
He also reportedly ordered live gunfire to be used against students in 2003 while serving as the country’s police chief.
AP video shot by: Mohsen Ganji
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