# The Guardian Council disqualifies Pezeshkian from the 2021 presidential race

Date: 2021

## The fact

In May 2021 the Guardian Council disqualified [Masoud Pezeshkian](/people/masoud-pezeshkian) from running for president, a completed filter that left [Ebrahim Raisi](/people/ebrahim-raisi) on an uncompetitive slate.

## Context

He was a sitting deputy speaker. Neighbouring 2024 approval is a later, different Council act. He did not write the Council’s statute.

The 2024 Council approval is neighbouring later filter-passing. Raisi’s 2021 win is a neighbouring election.

The President of Iran is head of the executive, not commander-in-chief of the IRGC or the armed forces. That command sits with the Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian does not write IAEA Board resolutions, [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

## Evidence and sources

Guardian Council of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed Council disqualification is a representation contraction. It is not his instrument as author; it is a completed event on his career file as target, stored because it structured the later 2024 opening.

## What is established and what is not

Established: May 2021 Guardian Council disqualification, independently reported.

Not established: that he was legally barred as a criminal, or a unique later turnout coefficient from the notice.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He was the target, not the author. Raisi’s field was thereby cleared. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Guardian Council disqualifies Pezeshkian from the 2021 presidential race, not a later speech about The Guardian Council disqualifies Pezeshkian from the 2021 presidential race.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Guardian Council disqualifies Pezeshkian from the 2021 presidential race on 2021-05-25 is not a licence to treat every later Guardian Council of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Guardian Council disqualifies Pezeshkian from the 2021 presidential race into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Council disqualified him. He was the target, not the author. Raisi’s field was thereby cleared. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Masoud Pezeshkian: https://factrail.ai/people/masoud-pezeshkian

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-guardian-council-disqualifies-reformists-2021-05-25/
- https://www.shora-gc.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-gc-disqualify-2021