Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday (May 26th) that he had written to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei asking him to intervene in order to ensure greater “
competition
” in the June presidential election.
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“
The heart of elections is competition. If you remove that, you have a corpse
”, declared Hassan Rohani, the day after the announcement of the rejection of the candidacies of his vice-president and one of his main allies. "
I wrote to the Supreme Leader yesterday [asking him] if he can help on this point,
" added Hassan Rouhani.
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