{"id":34068,"date":"2017-04-21T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-disqualified-from-iran\/"},"modified":"2017-04-21T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:02:24","slug":"mahmoud-ahmadinejad-disqualified-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-disqualified-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad &#8216;disqualified&#8217; from Iran elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{State media says clerical body disqualifies former Iranian president from running in May presidential election.}<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been disqualified from running in next month&#8217;s presidential election, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>The decision on Thursday was taken by the Guardian Council, a clerical body charged with vetting candidates for the May 19 election.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise move, Ahmadinejad registered as a candidate last week, despite previously saying he would not stand.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had previously urged him not to run.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Iran&#8217;s 2017 election<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadinejad left office in August 2013 after two turbulent four-year terms, leaving the country divided domestically, isolated internationally and struggling economically.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Ahmadinejad&#8217;s re-election was followed by one the largest protests to hit the country since the Islamic Revolution three decades before.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadinejad&#8217;s populist approach and humble roots mean that he remains a popular figure among poorer sections of society.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian Council said it had compiled a final list of candidates earlier on Thursday and that the interior ministry would announce their names by Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19508 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/42aa6e42fec64cbea7dbaae6be48d14a_18.jpg\" alt=\"Iran&#039;s presidential election will take place on May 19 \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{State media says clerical body disqualifies former Iranian president from running in May presidential election.} Iran&#8217;s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been disqualified from running in next month&#8217;s presidential election, according to state media. The decision on Thursday was taken by the Guardian Council, a clerical body charged with vetting candidates for the May 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34068"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34068"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}