Reformist candidate and former Iranian vice chairman Eshaq Janagiri posted a message on social media platform X on Sunday saying, “Our promise: We will stay eager for Iran and by no means tire of working arduous. We will spare no effort to enhance the lives of our folks and develop our beloved Iran whereas demanding the disclosure of the explanations for our disqualification.”
Janagiri additionally gave his full help to the permitted reformist candidate, Masoud Pezeskian.
Former parliament speaker Ali Larijani slammed the screening physique for rejecting his candidacy, saying a “sudden minority group” had thwarted his efforts to serve the nation.
“Undoubtedly, this unacceptable step will incur heavy prices for the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he warned, including that the coverage can be “reviewed” with out additional clarification.
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad additionally protested his disqualification, saying angrily, “They ought to clarify to me on tv, with paperwork and proof, why they rejected me, and the folks ought to choose them.”
“You have taken selections on behalf of the nation. This is a good injustice towards the nation,” Ahmadinejad fumed in a video launched on Sunday.
Vahid Haganian, a former aide to the Iranian chief, additionally shared a photograph of himself shaking palms with an ethnic Iranian Arab man at X earlier than his disqualification, writing that his 45-year profession had given him deep information of Iran’s totally different tribes, ethnicities, sects and faiths.
Mohamed Mehdi Esmaili, Minister of Culture within the authorities of the late President Ebrahi Raisi, made the assertion after being banned from touring by the Guardian Council.
He expressed no regrets in regards to the denial and burdened that he would “uphold the lofty beliefs of our martyred president.”