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The Iranian regime has taken its crackdown on any internal opposition into a new phase by disqualifying the reformist former president Hassan Rouhani from seeking re-election to the assembly of experts, the body that chooses the country’s supreme leader.

Other past presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have also found themselves barred but it is a sign of the regime’s audacity that it has chosen to exclude someone so experienced and prominent as Rouhani.

Iran’s former vice-president Eshaq Jahangiri said of Rouhani’s disqualification: “People ask what is the mechanism that in every election many personalities and high-ranking officials, such as presidents etc, are disqualified or excluded?

Outlets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards highlighted protests, a crashed economy, the collapse of the nuclear deal and Israeli assassinations as Rouhani’s chief legacy.

One of the media reasons cited for Rouhani’s disqualification – a failure to build mosques – was ridiculed as absurd by Hossein Ansari Rad, a former reformist MP and cleric.

Vatanka argued that Iranian power in the region was more flimsy than it looked and that the regime had bitten off more than it could chew, for instance by attacking terrorist groups inside Pakistan.

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