Parliament speaker. The Tehran mayor. A heart surgeon. The race is on for Iran’s next president
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Six candidates have been approved by Iran’s theocracy to run in Friday’s presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash with several other officials in May.