Iran's moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a former government official, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, have been barred from contesting the June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry said Tuesday, according to AFP.
Eight candidates won approval to stand, including five conservatives close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as two moderate conservatives and a reformist, the ministry said in a statement.
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