{"id":189378,"date":"2021-06-03T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203654"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T08:57:08","slug":"the-electoral-politics-and-legitimation-crisis-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/03\/the-electoral-politics-and-legitimation-crisis-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electoral Politics and Legitimation Crisis in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Iran\u2019s Guardian Council disqualified an entire class of politically diverse candidates from running in the next month\u2019s presidential election. The Council certified only seven candidates, one of whom, Ayatollah Ibrahim Raisi, the current Head of the Judiciary, is unmistakably designated to be the next president of the Islamic Republic. The Council axed all  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/03\/the-electoral-politics-and-legitimation-crisis-in-iran\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/03\/the-electoral-politics-and-legitimation-crisis-in-iran\/\">The Electoral Politics and Legitimation Crisis in Iran<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/03\/the-electoral-politics-and-legitimation-crisis-in-iran\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Iran\u2019s Guardian Council disqualified an entire class of politically diverse candidates from running in the next month\u2019s presidential election. The Council certified only seven candidates, one of whom, Ayatollah Ibrahim Raisi, the current Hea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189469,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189378\/revisions\/189469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}