Saeed Mohammad, 53, headed the Guards' construction and engineering arm for over two years before announcing his resignation in early March to run in the poll.
Registration at the interior ministry to contest the poll runs from Tuesday to Saturday, with names to be handed to the conservative-dominated Guardian Council for vetting before being allowed to run.
"I decided to run since... the supreme leader (Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
) has asked for change and a transformation in the managerial generation," Mohammad told a news conference in Tehran.
Mohammad, who holds the rank of second brigadier general, stressed his campaign was "not associated with any movement, party or faction".
"I am strongly against polarization... the talk of the left and the right, reformist and conservative," he added.
The presidential hopeful now serves as an advisor to Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami.
Mohammad brushed off a question on whether Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
needs a military president, calling on the media to focus on his "capabilities, achievements and track record".
"The people are tired. Not of the (system), but of mismanagement, empty words, inaction," he said. "We need order, a powerful government".