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Tehran: Former Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, a political rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, registered on Friday to run in the March parliamentary election.
Larijani, who resigned from his post in October amid a rift with Ahmadinejad about tactics in handling negotiations with the West over Iran's nuclear ambitions, would be one of the highest profile candidates in the March 14 election.
Larijani, who remains an influential figure, suggested he had only reluctantly agreed to run.
He said, "My view about signing up for the election was not positive. But in the past two weeks some religious leaders ... asked me to take part in the election."
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