Iran approves 6 candidates for presidential race, but again blocks Ahmadinejad
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Iran’s Guardian Council on Sunday approved the country’s hard-line parliament speaker and five others to run in the country’s June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others.