Iranian presidential election, 2005

Iranian presidential election of 2005 is supposed to take place in May or June, 2005. Mohammad Khatami, the present President of Iran, will need to step down after that, serving his maximum two consecutive terms according to the Islamic Republic's constitution.

No person has confirmed that he is running for the post of president yet, but the list of possible candidates include: Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (which may win the support of both wings, but is leaned towards the conservatives more than towards the reformists); Mehdi Karroubi, Behzad Nabavi, Mohammad Reza Khatami, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mostafa Moin, Safdar Hosseini, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, Mohammad Reza Aref, Mohammad Mousavi-Khoiniha, Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, and Sadegh Tabatabaee (for the reformist alliance); and Mohsen Rezai, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, Ali Larijani, Hassan Rouhani, Ali Akbar Velayati, and Ahmad Tavakkoli (for the conservative alliance). The candidates must first be approved by the Guardian Council before being put to public vote, and there is a chance that some of the possible reformist candidates won't win the approval, specially Nabavi or Mohammad Reza Khatami who were voted down by the council in the parliamentary elections of 2004.

Islamic Iran Participation Front, the most important reformist party in Iran, has told that they won't support any presidential candidate who is not a member of the party, except Mousavi and Moin.

See also: Politics of Iran