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		</div><p>Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will run again for office in upcoming elections in June, state television has reported.</p>
<p>Broadcast footage showed Mr Ahmadinejad marching alongside supporters to a registration centre at the interior ministry where he filled out forms.</p>
<p>In recent years, Mr Ahmadinejad has tried to polish his hardline image into a more centrist candidacy, criticising the government over mismanagement.</p>
<p>The Holocaust-denying former leader was previously banned from running for the presidency by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2017 – although he registered anyway.</p>
<p>Khamenei said he will not oppose the nomination of any candidate, although the electoral council may still block Mr Ahmadinejad’s candidacy.</p>
<p>In either case, the populist’s return to the political scene may energise discontent among hardliners who seek a tougher stance against the west – particularly Israel and the US.</p>
<p>Iran opened registration on Tuesday, kicking off the race as uncertainty looms over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers, and tensions remain high with the west.</p>
<p>President Hassan Rouhani cannot run again due to term limits, yet with the poll just a month away, no immediate favourite has emerged among the many rumoured candidates.</p>
<p>There also appears to be little interest in the vote by a public crushed by sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, many view the country’s hard-liners as ascendant – even as the US under President Joe Biden tries to find a way to re-enter the atomic accord.</p>
<p>Whoever wins the June 18 vote will take over from Mr Rouhani, a relative moderate within the Islamic Republic whose two four-year terms began with Iran reaching the nuclear deal.</p>
<p>His time in office now draws to a close with the accord unravelled after the US unilaterally withdrew from it under former leader Donald Trump in 2018.</p>
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