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Publish date15 May 2017 - 16:57
Story Code : 268258

Qalibaf withdraws from presidential race

Tehran mayor and a candidate in Iran's 12th presidential election, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has issued a statement announcing his withdrawal from the presidential race while backing principlist candidate, Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi.
Qalibaf withdraws from presidential race

"The day I decided to enter the election despite my personal interests, I was aware that I would face difficult and dangerous conditions," Qalibaf said in the statement on Monday.

He added that it was clear to him that bringing about any fundamental change to the status quo would not be possible unless through a fight against the "four-percent" affluent minority, which has been in control of the country's economic and political resources for long years. 

"The fight against pseudo-revolutionary opportunists has become highly costly, because such [an opportunistic] current is eating up the roots of the Revolution like a termite," the statement said.

The opportunists, Qalibaf said in the statement, are in an intellectual conflict with genuine revolutionaries and they now see their material profit at risk.

/SR
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