{"id":6154,"date":"2024-06-09T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T02:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2024-06-17T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T02:59:20","slug":"6154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/06\/09\/6154\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll ask the question again, in a different context.\u00a0 In what other country does this happen?\u00a0 Of a culling of candidates?\u00a0 80 applied, 6 were chosen as acceptable.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-election-guardians-council-raisi\/32985275.html\">\u201cIran Approves Parliament Head, Five Others As Presidential Candidates,\u201d<\/a> RFE\/RL Radio Farda, 6-9-24.\u00a0 The candidates approved by the Guardian Council (by the Supreme Leader) for the June 28 election are Parliament leader Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Reformist lawmaker Masud Pezeshkian, nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani (he will come in second I think), Amir Hossein Qazizadeh Hashemi, a Conservative deputy to former Pres. Raisi, and hard-line interior and justice minister Mostafa Purmohammadi.\u00a0 My money is on Qalibaf because he is former IRGC.\u00a0 BTW Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Larijani were struck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll ask the question again, in a different context.\u00a0 In what other country does this happen?\u00a0 Of a culling of candidates?\u00a0 80 applied, 6 were chosen as acceptable.\u00a0 \u201cIran Approves Parliament Head, Five Others As Presidential Candidates,\u201d RFE\/RL Radio Farda, 6-9-24.\u00a0 The candidates approved by the Guardian Council (by the Supreme Leader) for the June &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/06\/09\/6154\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions\/6155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}