Iran’s Guardian Council, an appointed council made up of six clerics and six jurists charged with interpreting Iran’s constitution, has excluded a large majority of candidates from the upcoming presidential election. A snap election was called because the previous incumbent, Ebrahim Raisi, was killed in a helicopter accident on May 19. A total of 80 people applied to run in the June 28 presidential election, however, only six candidates have been approved, a spokesman for the electoral authority said on Sunday on state television. The controversial former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the …