By staking his claim to Iran’s political centre and pledging to fend off religious hardliners, powerful Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has emerged as a clear front-runner in the race to become the Islamic republic’s next president, analysts say. In a three-page statement that formally kicked off his campaign for the June 17 vote, Rafsanjani said he was seeking to take back the Islamic republic’s number-two job in order to protect the regime and the fundamental freedoms of its citizens from “extremist tendencies”.Full Story
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