Iran's Guardian Council said on Friday it would soon announce a review of candidates excluded from this month's presidential election after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei intervened.
Iranian media reported that the Guardian Council decided to hold an emergency session this afternoon, after the Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei's speech regarding the exclusion of some personalities from the presidential elections.
The spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhdayi, said that it is necessary to take into account the words of the leader.
Following the statements of the Iranian leader, Ali #Khamenei, regarding the rejection of the eligibility of some candidates in the presidential elections, the spokesman for the Iranian Guardian Council said: "We will announce our opinion on this soon."
Today, Friday, Khamenei said that some candidates were wronged because their eligibility in the upcoming elections was rejected.
— Iran International - Arabic (@IranIntl_Ar) June 4, 2021
"The Supreme Leader's orders are the final word, and his judgment should be obeyed, and the Guardian Council will announce its opinion soon, while acknowledging that he is not immune to error," he added in a tweet to him on Twitter.
A few hours ago, Khamenei confirmed in his speech that some of the people who applied for their candidacy for the elections were subjected to unfairness and injustice during the stage of confirming their eligibility.
He added that they were accused or their families were accused, and these accusations are baseless and far from the truth, noting that the decision against them was based on reports that proved to be wrong and inaccurate.
Khamenei stressed that he is asking the relevant agencies to rehabilitate those who have been wronged based on reports that have proven to be unrealistic and untrue, and that it is necessary that compensation be made for that.
Boycotting elections in favor of "enemies"
In a related context, the Iranian guide said Friday that not voting in the presidential elections on June 18 means achieving the will of the "enemies of Islam", while many officials are concerned about a record abstention in the polls.
"Some want to give up and give up the duty to participate in the elections under absurd pretexts. It is the will of the enemies, the enemies of Iran, the enemies of Islam and the enemies of religious democracy," Khamenei said in a televised speech.
The guide quoted the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, as saying that "abstaining from elections in certain periods can be a sin and one of the worst sins."
On May 27, Khamenei called on his citizens not to heed calls to boycott the polls.
Iranians were called to vote on June 18 to elect a new president to replace current President Hassan Rouhani, whose policy of openness faltered as the United States withdrew in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal reached three years earlier in Vienna.