TEHRAN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran's conservative presidential candidate Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel announced his withdrawal from the upcoming presidential race on Monday, state IRIB TV website reported.
Haddad-Adel, a close ally to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that his withdrawal from the presidency aimed at "strengthening the principlists' camp," according to IRIB TV.
Out of eight approved candidates for Iran's presidential race, six are conservatives, or as they prefer to be called " principlists."
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