The only candidates allowed to run were men with impeccable religious credentials, loyal to a regime whose most important decisions are made by unelected clerics. Mir-Hossein Mousavi, chosen by the late Ayatollah Khomeini to be prime minister in 1981, was such a figure.
唯一允许参选的候选人都具有无懈可击的宗教信仰，效忠一个体制——虽然在这个体制里最重要的决定是由非选举产生的神职人员来做出的。米尔·侯赛因·穆萨维就是这样一个人。1981年，他被后来的最高领袖阿亚图拉·哈梅内伊挑选成为总理。