Iran's President Hassan Rouhani registered on Friday to run for a second four-year term in the country's May election.
Ahmadinejad also voiced reluctant support for Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with the US and other world powers, which saw Iran accept curbs on its nuclear program in exchange for relief from crippling global sanctions. "Our universities and our youth should feel more lively and delighted".
"Rouhani and I are side-by-side", Jahangiri told reporters.
Following the registration, Rouhani hailed the Iranian worldwide nuclear deal, known as JCPOA, as his administration's achievement, saying that "from now on, protecting the nuclear deal would be one of the important issues (for the next government) politically and economically".
Rouhani portrayed the deal as a newborn baby and hinted that his hard-line opponents were not fit to protect it, "Those who several times attempted to kill the child can not be a good caretaker for the child".
"Those who sympathise with the heads of sedition must know that the great nation of Iran will never forgive this great injustice". We'll not go back halfway. "It would be very unsafe to pin former President Ahmadinejad as being just a principlist... because there's a lot of the things that he has done within Iran in terms of internal policies that could qualify as being reformist". The list of the applicants include Ex-President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former Iranian Vice-President Hamid Baghaei and several other high-ranking officials.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined that his country will continue progress and growth in the production of different defense systems and weapons, including missiles, with no care for enemies' opposition.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei appears to not have intervened so far to force them to do so. Raisi has little political experience, but has spent decades in powerful judicial and backroom positions, including as Iran's prosecutor-general. Presently, he is a member of Assembly of Experts from South Khorasan Province, being elected for the first time in 2006 election.
However, a few days earlier, Raisi said that his candidacy is an effort to salvage the country from "chronic structural disease" and incorrect administrative traditions. He also registered on Friday.
The registration process, which opened on April 11, is set to conclude on Saturday.
The next question is whether he will be approved by the conservative-controlled Guardian Council, who will vet the hundreds of registered hopefuls over the coming week, with the election due on May 19. The council normally does not approve dissidents or women.
Rouhani has also lost one of his main backers: heavyweight former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who passed away in January, played a key role in the surprising landslide victory in 2013. Iran has since resumed selling oil and signed deals worth billions of dollars to replace its aging commercial airline inventory. However, critics say Iranians have yet to feel the economic benefits.
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