Azerbaijan, Baku, May 15 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
About 25,000 students and teachers will be cooperating with Iran's Guardian Council and Interior Ministry during the upcoming presidential elections, Mehr news agency reported.
Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Qolamreza Khajehsarvi said that the students and teachers will act as supervisors during the election process.
Official registration of candidates for Iran's upcoming presidential elections started on May 7, and lasted until May 11. Nearly 700 people have submitted their registrations for the presidential race.
Thus far 6 of Iran's known political figures have withdrawn their candidacies from the elections.
From May 12-16, Iran's Guardian Council looks into the each candidate, and determines whether a candidate is eligible for participating.
If a candidate, for some reason is not eligible for participating in the elections according to the Guardian Council, then from May 17-21, that candidate will have time to protest the decision.
Iran's Interior Ministry will unveil the names of the candidates which are competitive enough to participate in the elections on May 22-23.
After the candidates have been determined, the pre-election campaigns would begin on May 24, and end on June 12.
Iran will hold the 11th presidential election on June 14, 2013.
The voters will select the successor of the current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is not able to participate in the elections for the third term according to the country's constitutional laws.
The president of Iran is elected for a four-year term in a national election and the Guardian Council vets the candidates for qualifications.
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