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Iran's hardline presidential frontrunner could take the country back to a dark past, just as Iranians are itching for change
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Jun 14, 2021 11:40am |
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| News Date | Monday, June 14, 2021 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The list of challenges facing Iran's next president would confound the most capable of leaders.
Iran is in negotiations with the United States over how to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, and in talks with regional nemesis Saudi Arabia. The country is in the throes of an economic crisis and is under mounting pressure to reform. And there are growing questions about succession plans for the 82-year-old Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Amid these tides of change, Iran's political elite has decided that the next face of the Islamic Republic should be a figure steeped in its conservative roots and directly linked to some of the darkest chapters of its history.
Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judiciary chief with a brutal record on human rights, is running virtually uncontested in this week's presidential election, after Iran's clerical rulers barred most of his rivals from the race to replace outgoing Hassan Rouhani. |
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