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Iran’s New “Reformist” President

Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president-elect, is regarded as a “reformer” in some Western circles. Within the strict parameters of Iranian politics, this could even be true. Compared to his staunchly conservative predecessor, Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May along with the Iranian foreign minister, and to his hard-line opponent, Saeed Jalili, […]