Visiting Research Fellow, London School of Economics
Pejman Abdolmohammadi is a visiting research fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics. He is also a lecturer of political science and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Genoa.
Iran’s presidential election will take place on May 19. Six official candidates are running for the presidency, all of whom were preselected by the Council of Guardians from among 1,653 registered candidates.
The former Islamic Republic of Iran’s president, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, died on January 8 in Tehran.
