Saeed Mohammad (file photo)
Saeed Mohammad, 53, recently resigned from his powerful post as the head of the IRGC s construction conglomerate, Khatam al-Anbia, citing the likelihood he would take part in the presidential election as the reason.
Mohammad has raised his profile in recent months by taking trips to a number of provinces and also on social media, where his hard-line supporters have been campaigning on his behalf and attempting to compare him with former IRGC Quds force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in early 2020.
But he remains little known to the general public and has no political experience. In a recent
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