A senior official in the judiciary in Iran warned, on Sunday, candidates for the Iranian presidential elections scheduled for June, not to cross the “red lines.”
Iranians are invited to the polls on June 18 to elect a successor. President Hassan Rouhani, who is prohibited by the constitution from running for a third consecutive term.
(The Tehran Prosecutor, Ali Al-Qassi Mehr, said, according to what was quoted by the official “Mizan Online” agency of the judiciary, that “candidates should not cross the red lines of the regime in their campaigns and speeches.”
Al-Qasi Mehr said Referring to the candidates: “We will take care of them firmly,” warning in particular against launching any attack on the “reputation” of the judiciary, whose hard-line president, Ibrahim Raisi, is the most likely to win the elections.
Among the “red lines” The other, which the capital’s attorney general did not mention, is questioning the principle of the “Islamic Republic” or the principle of “guardianship of the jurist.”
The official campaign for the presidential elections began quietly on Friday in an atmosphere of general dissatisfaction with the serious economic and social crisis that is passing through the country.
Raisi won 38% of the vote in 2017 against Rouhani.
Raisi benefits from disqualifying the nominations of several personalities who could have outdone him, and finds himself facing four other hard-line conservatives like him and two reformist candidates who are not They enjoy nationwide support.
The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself, on Thursday set the limits of presidential rhetoric, ordering candidates to focus on economic issues such as “youth unemployment” and “the livelihoods of the underprivileged class,” which are key themes.
A few months ago, the authorities have been calling for mass participation in the elections, while the rare available expectations hint at a very high abstention, after a record 57% abstention was recorded during the legislative elections that were held in February 2020.
In statements published by most of the Iranian media, the Iranian police chief, Hossein Ashtari, on Friday threatened to prosecute people who “exceed electoral standards” and “encourage people not to vote.”
