{"id":708,"date":"2013-05-21T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransview.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2013-05-21T23:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T18:54:40","slug":"hashemi-rafsanjani-disqualified-leaves-tehran-miffed-or-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/hashemi-rafsanjani-disqualified-leaves-tehran-miffed-or-fighting\/708\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashemi Rafsanjani Disqualified Leaves Tehran, Miffed or Fighting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1700\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1699\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: 'times new roman', times;\">Iran\u2019s former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani left Tehran for the holy city of Qom this afternoon, an informed source speaking on condition of anonymity told Iran\u2019sView.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1740\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1739\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: 'times new roman', times;\">\u201cHe left Tehran after he was informed that he was disqualified as a candidate by the Guardian Council,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1781\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14px;\">Iran\u2019s interior ministry announced today (Tuesday) the list of qualified candidates for the presidential election. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and president Ahmadinejad\u2019s controversial aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei were disqualified by the Guardian Council for being competent to take responsibility of the presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: 'times new roman', times;\">\u201cMr. Hashemi is to meet some of Qom\u2019s top clerics,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1814\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1813\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: 'times new roman', times;\">Hashemi may be seeking the support of powerful Ayatollahs in Qom to appeal the decision of removing him from the presidential election race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1784\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14px;\">Although s<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1783\">ome other observers suggest that chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council, Hashemi Rafsanjani left Tehran as a \u201csign of pain\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1807\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1369161410622_1806\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: 'times new roman', times;\">\u201cHis disqualification makes a very bad impact on his public image, he may stay in Qom and not return to Tehran,\u201dan observer who is familiar with Hashemi said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe left Tehran after he was informed that he was disqualified as a candidate by the Guardian Council,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[157,82,45,78,246,545],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/iransview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hashemi-Rafsanjani.jpg?fit=512%2C407&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ogT0-bq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}