Iran’s leading Principlist paper, Kayhan, says a poll has assessed that 45 percent of people currently say they will participate in the forthcoming presidential election, and 67 percent of them say they will vote for Ebrahim Raeisi.

Iran’s Armed Forces invite people to participate en masse in the upcoming presidential election.

Iran’s presidential candidate and current Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raeisi says he will put an end to corruption and rent in the country, distinguishing his economic and political agenda in by far more unforgettable terms than his rivals.

Presidential candidate Alireza Zakani says the United States uses sanctions as an instrument against other countries but “will not be able to do anything” against Iran if the country strengthens its economy.

Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh, the Reformist candidate running for president in the June 18 election, has harshly criticized state-level executive managers for failing to act based on the science of management and wasting national wealth.

The candidates in Iran’s 2021 presidential election have started to move from a campaigning stage of merely laying out their own plans for the future to one of directly taking on one another.

A leading Reformist daily says the Reformist faction would harm its own image if it throws its support behind presidential candidate Nasser Hemmati since he is seen as a key economic decision-maker in the Rouhani administration.

Presidential candidate Saeed Jalili says he has drawn up a plan to boost Iran’s foreign exchange earnings, under which all administration bodies, not just the Petroleum Ministry, would be tasked with helping import foreign currencies into the country.

Ebrahim Raeisi’s campaign chief says some Reformist groupings — normally rivals to the Principlist presidential candidate — have contacted him and offered to campaign for his boss.

Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei, a former chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), says he predicted that Iran’s enemies would rally Arab countries against the Islamic Republic and would lay an economic siege on the country as early as January 1982.