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Iran’s former president Hassan Rouhani mentioned Wednesday that after 24 years of membership he has been barred from searching for re-election to the physique that appoints the nation’s supreme chief.
Rouhani’s official web site mentioned jurists answerable for vetting hopefuls “didn’t approve” his candidacy for a brand new time period on the Assembly of Experts. He didn’t elaborate on the explanation.
The former president, who was first elected to the physique in 1999, introduced in November that he was searching for a brand new time period.
Rouhani served as Iran’s president from 2013 to 2021. Since leaving workplace, he has been a vocal critic of the ultra-conservative administration of his successor Ebrahim Raisi and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has been one in all its principal pillars.
The 88-member Assembly of Experts is tasked with electing, supervising and, if obligatory, dismissing the supreme chief, who has the ultimate say in all issues of state in Iran.
The put up has been held since 1989 by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, now 84.
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