The list of six final candidates for the Iranian presidential election was released by the Interior Ministry on Sunday, about three weeks before election day.
A list of six individuals deemed eligible to run for office on Tehran's Pasteur Street was published on Sunday following a qualification review by the Constitutional Council.
The presidential candidates include Said Jalili, Alireza Zakhani, Amir Hossein Kajizadeh Hashemi, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Massoud Pezeshkian.
Other prominent candidates who have been disqualified from the presidential race include former parliament speaker Ali Larijani and former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The Constitutional Council is reviewing 80 people who have applied to run in the next presidential elections.
Hundreds of people applied to run last week, but only 80 met the registration requirements, including four women.
The registration process for the 14th round of Iran's presidential elections began on May 30 and ended on June 3.
The campaign period began on Sunday and will run until June 26, while the nationwide presidential election will be held on Friday, June 28.
The new government, the 14th since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, is due to take power in late June or early July and serve a four-year term.
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage crashed in a forest in the northwestern mountain region on May 19, killing the president, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdullahian and six others.
According to the constitution, until a new president is elected, First Vice President Mohammed Mokbel will act as acting president at the discretion of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei.
