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Interview with former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Tehran, May 24 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marina Villén) Former conservative Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad assures in an interview with Efe that participation in the next elections will be "very low" if his candidacy is rejected and he advocates for a better distribution of wealth to "regain the confidence" of the population lost in the theocratic system.SOUNDBITES OF MAHMUD AHMADINEYAD FORMER IRANIAN CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT. **RESTRICTIONS: NO ACCESS ISRAEL MEDIA/PERSIAN LANGUAGE TV STATIONS OUTSIDE IRAN/STRICTLY NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN/VOA PERSIAN/MANOTO-1 TV/IRAN INTERNATIONAL** "It is clear. At the moment, if I am rejected, the participants will be very low and it is not possible to foresee in a certain way who will win.""My decision is again based on the request of the people. In recent years, especially in the last year and especially in recent months, there has been a lot of pressure on me from different sectors of the population, from different parts of the world, to present my candidacy""The concentration of wealth and power is a source of corruption, the weakening of the people, and inefficiency in the economy. Now, more than 85 percent of the country's economy is at the disposal of the government and the institutions of the system.""The distrust has become generalized, people distrust so much the governor of a village even the whole system. That does not mean that the whole system is guilty of creating such situation, but it is clear that when a problem occurs and the system does not have an adequate reaction, distrust among people is spread everywhere "."From my point of view, the JCPOA (nuclear pact) is finished and the reason is that it has not been regulated according to the norms of international law. It is a unilateral contract, and a unilateral contract has no chance of surviving ".