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Tehran [Iran], June 10 (ANI): Six people, including Iran Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, are approved to run for the snap presidential election, which are set to take place on June 28 in Iran after the tragic demise of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, according to Al Jazeera. Former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani were permitted to run by the Guardian Council, a constitutional screening body; however, 74 other candidates were disqualified. The 62-year-old Ghalibaf, a former head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) air forc…