Abdolnasser Hemmati, mainly seen as a moderate politician, is a senior economist and currently serves as governor of the Central Bank of Iran.

Reformist politician Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh formerly served as vice president and head of the National Sports Organization of Iran under ex-President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami.

Seyyed Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi is a Principlist lawmaker, who currently serves as the legislature’s first vice speaker.

The spokesman of Iran’s Constitutional Council rejects speculation that the vetting body’s disapproval of a number of high-profile presidential hopefuls could reduce the turnout in the forthcoming election.

Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, Iran’s Judiciary chief and a candidate in the June 18 presidential election, says he negotiated quietly to secure the qualification of more candidates following a move by vetting body Constitutional Council to disqualify a number of prominent figures.

Iran’s Interior Ministry releases a final list of the candidates found qualified by the Constitutional Council to run for president in the June 18 election.

Former Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan has dropped his bid to run for president in Iran’s June 18 election in favor of Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, the chief of the Judiciary.

Iran’s Constitutional Council is shortly expected to release a final list of the candidates qualified to contest the upcoming presidential election.

Mohammad Shariatmadari, the minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare, will be running for president in the June 18 presidential vote.

Lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian will be running for president as a Reformist candidate.