Press TV - The number of high-profile figures to have registered for the 12th presidential election in Iran so far has surpassed a dozen, as the registration process for presidential hopefuls enters its fifth and last day.

A list of the figures appears below in the order of their registration dates:


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Seyyed Mostafa Mir-Salim[/caption]
Seyyed Mostafa Mir-Salim, a member of the Expediency Council;�a former caretaker of the Presidential Office; a senior aide to former President Ayatollah Seyyed Ali�Khamenei, an ex-minister of culture and Islamic guidance under ex-President�Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi�Rafsanjani,�and the head of the central committee of the Islamic Coalition Party


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Masoud Zaribafan[/caption]
Masoud�Zaribafan, a former chairman of Iran�s Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs; a former�vice president under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the latter�s second four-year term;�and a former member of the 2nd Tehran City Council


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Hamid Baghaei (photo by AFP)[/caption]
Hamid�Baghaei, the former head�of�Iran�s�Cultural�Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization in Ahmadinejad�s first presidential term; the ex-caretaker of the Presidential Office;�and a former vice president for Ahmadinejad


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (photo by AP)[/caption]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a former two-time president;�a�member of the Expediency Council;�and a former Tehran mayor


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Seyyed Mostafa Hashemitaba[/caption]
Seyyed Mostafa Hashemitaba, former minister of heavy industries under ex-prime minister Mohammad Javad�Bahonar; a former�minister�of�industry under former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi; the former head of the Sports Organization and a former vice president in Rinafsanjani�s second presidential term and Khatami�s first term;�and a member of the 1st Tehran�City Council


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Seyyed Mohammad Gharazi[/caption]
Seyyed Mohammad�Gharazi,�a former member of the Parliament;�a former oil minister under Bahonar and Mousavi; a former minister of�post, telegraph�and�telephone�under Mousavi and Hashemi Rafsanjani;�and a former member of the 1st Tehran�City Council


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Mehdi Kalhor[/caption]
Mehdi Kalhor, a former media adviser to Ahmadinejad;�and a�former adviser to the ex-president of the Islamic Republic of�Iran�Broadcasting (IRIB)


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Hassan Norouzi[/caption]
Hassan Norouzi, a former member of the Parliament


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Mohsen Gharavian[/caption]
Mohsen Gharavian, a teacher at the center of�seminary�studies in the holy city of Qom


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Mostafa Kavakebian[/caption]
Mostafa�Kavakebian, a member of the Parliament; and the head of Mardomsalari Party


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Alireza Zakani[/caption]
Alireza Zakani, the director of jahannews website;�a former member of the Parliament;�the secretary general of the Society of the Pathseekers of�the Islamic Revolution; and�a former head of Iran�s Students Basij Organization


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Hojjatoleslam Hassan Rouhani (photo by AFP)[/caption]
Hojjatoleslam�Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent;�a member of the Expediency Council;�a member of the 3rd and 5th rounds of the Assembly of Experts;�a former member of the Parliament;�the ex-secretary of Iran�s�Supreme National Security Council�(SNSC) under Hashemi�Rafsanjani and Mohammad�Khatami;�and�the ex-head of the Center for Strategic Studies at the SNSC


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi[/caption]
Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi,�the current custodian of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (PBUH) in the city of Mashhad;�a member of the Expediency Council;�a member of 4th and 5th rounds of the Assembly of Experts; Tehran�s former prosecutor;�an ex-head of Iran�s General Inspection Organization; a�former deputy at Iran�s�Judiciary, a former top prosecutor of the country;�and the former chairman of the IRIB Supervisory Council