{"id":41111,"date":"2013-06-12T08:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/rezaei-rules-out-coalition-with-rivals\/41111\/"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T07:27:24","slug":"rezaei-rules-out-coalition-with-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/rezaei-rules-out-coalition-with-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rezaei rules out coalition with rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian presidential contender Mohsen Rezaei says he has no plans to form a coalition with any other rival candidates for the June 14 election.\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a Wednesday press conference, the independent candidate emphasized that he is serious about his candidacy and will not quit the race.\n<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u00c5\u201cToday, any [political] bickering is a waste of the nation\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s time. Time is our most important asset and given the sanctions and lost time, we shouldn\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t lose even one second.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Rezaei, secretary of the Expediency Council, said if elected, he would go beyond political lines and include figures with different affiliations in his Cabinet.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rezaei is facing five rivals, namely President of the Expediency Council\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Center for Strategic Research Hassan Rohani, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, and former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Gharazi.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two candidates, former Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and former First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Aref withdrew their candidacies on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The president of Iran is elected for a four-year term in a national election. Nearly 50.5 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the upcoming presidential poll.\n<\/p>\n<p>YH\/NN\/HMV<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/06\/12\/308542\/rezaei-rules-out-coalition-with-rivals\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rezaei rules out coalition with rivals\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian presidential contender Mohsen Rezaei says he has no plans to form a coalition with any other rival candidates for the June 14 election. Speaking in a Wednesday press conference, the independent candidate emphasized that he is serious about his candidacy and will not quit the race. He added, \u00c5\u201cToday, any [political] bickering is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}