I'm John Bancher with my colleague Benham Benham-Tellable, a senior fellow

of the

and at the FTD site, Benham and his colleagues have made available to us six names, candidates for the presidency.

The vote is on Friday the 28th, and we've talked about the hard hard liners two of them either

former mayor or present mayor of Tehran that means brutality now we turn to the

only cleric running Mustafa poor Porma and he's from Kumb province which means that

he's got the inside track with spirituality but why is he here Benham he doesn't

seem at all worthy of war fighting. I do see that he's associated with mass execution, but that's not unique in Iran.

No, indeed that's not unique in Iran, but remember he had a role in the Intelligence

Ministry as well, the Deputy Minister of Intelligence, while late in that period of service,

which I think is 87 or 88 into 1999, you had the chain

murders in Iran, so this was someone who may have played a role on the cover-up or the downplaying

of those chain murders.

Also, he would have been in a position to carry out or support or oversee a lot of the capital

punishment, which is really just the state's abuse of the death penalty against political prisoners against drug traffickers

or drug smugglers or even drug users in his role as Minister of Justice from 2013 to 2017. Very interesting if you or any of your listeners have been watching the debates.

For Mohammedi, despite having this deep hardline background, this religious background,

is the only cleric in this electoral

or shall be safe electoral contest, but he's not talking in these debates about religious issues. A this goes to show you

how far the Islamic Republic has come, meaning it's not really Islamic, nor is it a republic.

But this person is trying to pivot and cast himself as something of an

outsider of an opposition figure despite him being present at creation a lot of the crises that have led to this massive

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