(ANSA) - ISTANBUL, MAY 26 - "The heart of the elections is competition. If you remove that, you will have a corpse".
Thus Iranian President Hassan Rohani, in the aftermath of the exclusion from the Conservative-dominated Guardian Council of the main moderate and reformist presidential candidates on June 18.
The head of the outgoing government, who cannot reappear having reached the limit of two terms, also confirmed that he had written to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to ask for "help" on the matter.
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