↑Rohollah Faghihi (16 May 2017), The reason Tehran's mayor dropped out of presidential race, Al-Monitor, සම්ප්රවේශය 20 May 2017, Raisi's team had reportedly told Ghalibaf's entourage that they would appoint him as first vice president if the conservative cleric is elected president. This decision was reportedly supposed to be announced on the evening of May 15, but nothing to that effect was made public. Rather, Raisi just declared that he would make use of Ghalibaf in his government.
