Promising greater openness at home and outreach abroad when he was elected in 2013, Iran’s outgoing moderate President Hassan Rouhani comfortably won a second term but now he leaves office as a deeply unpopular figure. Ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi is widely expected to win the presidency on record-low turnout this coming Friday – an outcome that […]
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