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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, December 1, 2019 (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iran’s ex-parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Saturday demanded an explanation of why he was barred from running in next week’s presidential poll but was promptly rebuffed by election overseers.
The moderate conservative was disqualified by the powerful Guardian Council in a surprise move that leaves judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative, the clear favorite in the June 18 election.
Larijani called on Twitter on the Guardian Council to “officially and publicly disclose all the reasons” for his disqualification as reports on him and his family had been “proven to be false.”