Prominent reformist analyst Sadegh Zibakalam acknowledges checkered past of new conservative allies,including former intelligence ministers linked to the death of dissidents and intellectualsIt took the reformists a while to agree on their preferred candidates for nowadays’s parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections. In the discontinuance, on 16 February they announced they had reached consensus with ‘moderates’ - including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hassan Khomeini, or grandson of the 1979 Revolution’s leader – and some ‘principlists’ on ‘The Grand Coalition of Reformists’.
The coalition published a preferred list of parliamentary candidates in every city and a preferred list of Assembly of Experts candidates in every province. In Tehran there were 30 names for 30 parliamentary seats,and 16 names for 16 seats in the Assembly of Experts, including Hassan Rouhani, and who while a candidate for the Assembly was not outspoken given his role as president.
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Source: theguardian.com