Sadeq “Amoli” Larijani, a member of the Guardian Council and brother of candidate Ali Larijani, has criticised the influence of security services whose reports were responsible for the disqualification of several candidates. Amoli Larijani said on Twitter “I have never found the decisions of the Guardian Council to be so indefensible… The cause of these disturbances is, to a large extent, the increasing involvement of the security apparatus in making decisions for the Guardian Council through false reports”.