Seyyed Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi is a Principlist lawmaker, who currently serves as the legislature’s first vice speaker.

Former Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi has become the second prominent presidential hopeful to drop out of the June 18 election and endorse the Principlist camp’s best presumptive bet Ebrahim Raeisi.

Former Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan has dropped his bid to run for president in Iran’s June 18 election in favor of Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, the chief of the Judiciary.

Mohammad Shariatmadari, the minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare, will be running for president in the June 18 presidential vote.

Lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian will be running for president as a Reformist candidate.

Ali Larijani served as speaker of Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) from 2008 to 2020. Larijani is largely associated with the Principlist camp, while some believe he is closer to the Reformists.

Es’haq Jahangiri is a prominent politician and Iran’s current vice president. He will be running in the June 18 presidential election as the Reformist camp’s top candidate.

Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan is a former minister of defense and currently serves as an adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on military affairs.

A Principlist figure and former diplomat, Saeed Jalili served as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 2007 to 2013.

Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, seeks to contest the June 18 presidential election.