The Iranian Elections: Who’s Running, Who’s Not, Who’s Been Barred – Analysis
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By Frud Bezhan
(RFE/RL) — There will be more than 7,000 candidates contesting Iran’s parliamentary elections — less than half of those who applied to stand in the nationwide vote on February 21.
The candidates are mostly conservatives and hard-liners who exhibit absolute loyalty to the country’s supreme leader, but...