Presidential candidates jockey for support ahead of Iran’s crucial June polls

With just four months to go until Iran’s eleventh presidential elections, potential candidates to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are staking their camps ahead of polls seen as critical for a country that has slid deep into crisis. Launching his campaign to replace Ahmadinejad, Mohsen Rezaei, the former Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander turned politician, declared that the very survival of the Islamic Republic would depend on the performance of the next administration.