Name: Flash Analysis: Prominent Iranian Candidates Disqualified
Uploaded: 2013-05-22 16:02:00Z
Duration: 4 min 25 s
Channel: RFE/RL
Description: Iran's powerful Guardians Council has disqualified two prominent candidates, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close aide to outgoing President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, from running in next month's presidential election. Mardo Soghom, RFE/RL's regional director for Iran and Iraq, says that the decision indicates the insecurity of Iran's religious establishment.

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