Iran\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s principlist presidential candidate and Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf <\/p>\n
Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the biggest danger threatening resource-rich Iran is mismanagement.\n<\/p>\n
Iran is rich in natural and human resources, and the biggest challenge and threat is the mismanagement of current affairs, said the Principlist candidate in a stump speech in the northern Mazandaran Province.\n<\/p>\n
He once again promised to fix the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s economic and social problems within two years of his presidency if he wins the upcoming election.\n<\/p>\n
Qalibaf, who is also the mayor of Tehran, pointed out that he will do so with the help of a cabinet that will comprise workers, farmers, industrialists, teachers, and university lecturers.\n<\/p>\n
He also told a crowd of supporters in the western city of Ardebil on Thursday that the Iranian people deserve a better economic situation given the existing economic potentialities in the country.\n<\/p>\n
The presidential candidate said in his Ardebil speech that inflation and unemployment are major concerns affecting the whole country.\n<\/p>\n
In the forthcoming election, Qalibaf will be competing against Secretary of the Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei, President of the Center for Strategic Research of the Expediency Council Hassan Rohani, lawmaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, former First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, and former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Gharazi.\n<\/p>\n
Iranians will go to the polls in the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s 11th presidential election on June 14.\n<\/p>\n
According to Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, 50.5 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the election.\n<\/p>\n
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