Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says he has written to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to express his grievances about the recent disqualification of certain presidential hopefuls by the country’s Constitutional Council.

The spokesman of Iran’s Constitutional Council rejects speculation that the vetting body’s disapproval of a number of high-profile presidential hopefuls could reduce the turnout in the forthcoming election.

Iran’s Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri, who has been disqualified by the country’s Constitutional Council from running in the June 18 presidential election and who would have been the Reformist camp’s top candidate, says the vetting body bears all liabilities arising from the rejection.

Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, Iran’s Judiciary chief and a candidate in the June 18 presidential election, says he negotiated quietly to secure the qualification of more candidates following a move by vetting body Constitutional Council to disqualify a number of prominent figures.

Iran’s Interior Ministry releases a final list of the candidates found qualified by the Constitutional Council to run for president in the June 18 election.

Iran’s Constitutional Council has confirmed that it has finished vetting individuals hoping to run for president in the June 18 election and that it has handed over a final list of approved candidates to the Interior Ministry.

A report by the Iranian Fars news agency says Iran’s Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri and former Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani have been disqualified by the country’s Constitutional Council from running in the June 18 presidential election.

Former Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi has become the second prominent presidential hopeful to drop out of the June 18 election and endorse the Principlist camp’s best presumptive bet Ebrahim Raeisi.

Former Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan has dropped his bid to run for president in Iran’s June 18 election in favor of Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, the chief of the Judiciary.

Iran’s Constitutional Council is shortly expected to release a final list of the candidates qualified to contest the upcoming presidential election.