TEHRAN (FNA) - The late Imam Khomeini's grandson, Seyed Hassan Khomeini will not run for the upcoming presidential elections in Iran.
"Sayyid Hassan Khomeini will not run for the elections and he is not interested in such issues," Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Bojnordi, a prominent seminary cleric and a relative of the Imam Khomeini household told FNA on Monday.
Some politicians and activists within Iran have been calling for Seyed Hassan Khomeini to stand in the forthcoming presidential elections scheduled for June 12, 2009.
In February Ali Eshraqi, another grandson of the late Imam Khomeini, was barred from running in Iran's parliamentary elections. He was eventually granted the right to run for the parliament but pulled out of the race, reportedly due to his family's wishes.
"Abandoning the race was my brother's own decision and the wish of the late Imam's family," his sister Zahra Eshraqi said in early march.
Eshraqi, a 39-year-old civil engineer, is the son of Ayatollah Shahaboddin Eshraqi, a son-in-law and close confidant of the late Imam Khomeini before and during the first years of the Islamic Revolution.
Meantime, former President Seyed Mohammad Khatami has also announced that his candidacy depends on how much it can affect the ongoing developments.
"I need to consider how my presence in the elections can impact the current trend. That is why I have not yet announced my decision (about the candidacy)," Khatami said last Tuesday.
Meanwhile, another prominent reformist figure and former Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi, who ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2005 election, has said that he would soon announce his final decision about running in the election.