By bne Tehran bureau Masoud Pezeshkian, the only Iranian presidential candidate from the reformist political faction, made liberal remarks on June 16 after his initial positions failed to attract voters opposed to the basic principles of the Islamic Republic. Iran is holding snap presidential elections on June 28, following the death of former President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on May 19. The Guardian Council, responsible for supervising elections and qualifying candidates, approved six nominees, with five belonging to hardline political parties grouped under the fundamentalist fact…