Iran`s Haddad-Adel drops out of presidential race

TEHRAN,June 11(MNA) –Presidential candidate Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel on Monday withdrew his candidacy from Iran’s June 14 presidential election. The principlist politician announced his decision to drop out of the election in a statement, in which he urged the Iranian people to vote for the candidates who support the “discourse of the Islamic Revolution” and the values approved by the Supreme Leader and cast their ballots taking into consideration the Leader’s guidelines. The former Majlis speaker also said that his decision showed his “adherence” to the Coalition of Three, which consisted of principlist candidates Haddad-Adel, Ali Akbar Velayati, and Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf In an interview with the Mehr News Agency, the spokesman for the election campaign office of Qalibaf thanked Haddad-Adel for keeping to the agreements of the Coalition of Three. Parviz Esmaeili said the fact that Haddad-Adel preferred the values of the Islamic Revolution and the success of the principlists to his personal interests was a lesson to all principlist activists.