Two days after the Iranian presidential election June 20, Vahid Haqqanian, a senior official in the supreme leader's office, provided his analysis of the election process in a public memo.
Known as the supreme leader’s right-hand man, Haqqanian argued that the decision of Mohsen Rezaei, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Abdolnasser Hemmati to stay in the presidential elections until the end proved that the enemies' arguments saying these candidates were back-up candidates for Ebrahim Raisi proved to be wrong.
