The summary of the government newspaper’s attack on Rouhani is that they disqualified him due to fear of his victory in the elections.
The government newspaper in Iran wrote that with the closure of the recent election file, Hojjatoleslam Hassan Rouhani, who had been disqualified by the Guardian Council for candidacy in the sixth round of the Assembly of Experts elections, detailed in a letter to the people the reasons for his disqualification by this council and raised issues that require reflection and examination from various political, discursive, and legal perspectives.
President Rouhani’s strong criticisms of the process of assessing qualifications, as well as the structure and functioning of the Guardian Council, have been raised, despite the fact that he was able to rely on the confirmation of this same legal body to hold the presidency for 8 years. It is evident that the former president, who was twice qualified by the Guardian Council in presidential elections and participated within the framework of the laws, cannot consider a mechanism that has brought him to power as entirely unqualified. Rouhani must answer why there was no objection to the monitoring mechanism when it was approved by the Guardian Council.
Rouhani’s resignation letter states that the Guardian Council rejected his qualifications out of fear of his victory in the elections, while the people of Iran in the 1400 presidential elections, despite the presence of Abdolnaser Hemmati and Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh as representatives, voted for a change in the current situation in favor of Rouhani’s thinking and reformists.