Iran state TV: 7 approved for June 18 presidential election

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television has named the seven candidates approved for the country’s June 18 presidential election. The report Tuesday showed that former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former parliament speaker Ali Larijani had been barred from running. The list did include Iran’s judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric who ran against Rouhani in 2017 who is considered among analysts to be the strongest candidate in the upcoming vote