{"id":6847,"date":"2017-05-15T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:36:58","slug":"iran-election-hardliner-qalibaf-withdraws-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/05\/15\/iran-election-hardliner-qalibaf-withdraws-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran election: Hardliner Qalibaf withdraws candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran&#8217;s hardline mayor, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has withdrawn from Iran&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Qalibaf called on his supporters to back fellow hardliner Ebrahim Raisi against the incumbent Hassan Rouhani, a moderate who is seeking a second term.<\/p>\n<p>A victory for Mr Raisi on Friday is vital for &#8220;the preservation of the interests of the people, the revolution and the country&#8221;, he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Qalibaf had been under pressure from the clerical establishment to drop out.<\/p>\n<p>Hardliners reportedly feared the anti-Rouhani vote would be split and make a second round run-off more likely.<\/p>\n<p>In the last election in 2013, the former Revolutionary Guards commander and police chief came a distant second to Mr Rouhani with 16.5% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran&rsquo;s hardline mayor, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, has withdrawn from Iran&rsquo;s presidential election. Mr Qalibaf called on his supporters to back fellow hardliner Ebrahim Raisi against the incumbent Hassan Rouhani, a moderate who is seeking a second term. A victory for Mr Raisi on Friday is vital for &ldquo;the preservation of the interests of the people, the revolution and the country&rdquo;, he warned. Mr Qalibaf had been under pressure from the clerical establishment to drop out. Hardliners reportedly feared the anti-Rouhani vote would be split and make a second round run-off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6849,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions\/6849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}