(CNN) -- Mohsen Rezaie may have little chance of winning Friday's presidential election in Iran, observers say, but they believe he's running with a purpose: getting rid of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mohsen Rezaie could garner enough conservative votes to swing Iran's election, experts say. "He came there just to defeat Ahmadinejad. He didn't come to win," said Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Hardliners disappointed with Ahmadinejad and reformers eager for new leadership are both glad Rezaie is running, Karim Sadjadpour wrote in a recent article for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he is an associate.
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Presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaie led Revolutionary Guard for 18 years
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His only goal in campaign is to undermine incumbent, Iran expert says
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Rezaie led Revolutionary Guard during war with Iraq, Beirut bombing
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He tells newspaper he would seek to improve relations with United States
I saw dead people and crushed children, families destroyed and fleeing from their homes, here in @placeholder but also there in Iraq.