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Iran's Election Already Has a Likely Right-Wing Winner, But Nuclear Talks Will Go On
Semi-official media sources with ties to the country's influential Revolutionary Guard have already picked a likely winner from among the seven men who have been qualified for the Iranian presidency.
The likely victor of that speculation is a conservative, but even this shift to the right may not be enough to turn the tide against the nuclear talks currently being pursued by the United States and Iran.
Iran's Fars News Agency first reported Friday the names of the seven candidates out of nearly 600 who were approved to run next month by the 12-member Guardian Council. The right-wing-dominated list included former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalil, Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi, Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee, legislator Alireza Zakani, Deputy Parliament Speaker Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, former Vice President Mohsen Mehralizadeh and Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati.
Shortly after the report, which was later confirmed by the Iranian Interior Ministry, Fars News Agency then issued its own prediction of the results, with a 72.5% landslide for Raisi, by far the most prominent of the pack. It also predicted a lackluster 53% turnout.
Raisi, a hardliner, has expressed skepticism toward Iran's diplomatic overtures to the West, especially in the wake of former President Donald Trump's 2018 exit from a nuclear deal with Iran and major world powers. That agreement was put together by former President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose second and final term comes to a close with this year's vote.
The U.S. exit from the agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was followed by the rollout of intensive sanctions that have wreaked havoc on the Iranian economy. They remain in place today, even as President Joe Biden seeks a U.S. reentry to the deal in exchange for Iran reinstating suspended enrichment limits.
Iran's Election Already Has a Likely Right-Wing Winner, But Nuclear Talks Will Go On
Semi-official media sources with ties to the country's influential Revolutionary Guard have already picked a likely winner from among the seven men who have been qualified for the Iranian presidency.
The likely victor of that speculation is a conservative, but even this shift to the right may not be enough to turn the tide against the nuclear talks currently being pursued by the United States and Iran.
Iran's Fars News Agency first reported Friday the names of the seven candidates out of nearly 600 who were approved to run next month by the 12-member Guardian Council. The right-wing-dominated list included former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalil, Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi, Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee, legislator Alireza Zakani, Deputy Parliament Speaker Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, former Vice President Mohsen Mehralizadeh and Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati.
Shortly after the report, which was later confirmed by the Iranian Interior Ministry, Fars News Agency then issued its own prediction of the results, with a 72.5% landslide for Raisi, by far the most prominent of the pack. It also predicted a lackluster 53% turnout.
Raisi, a hardliner, has expressed skepticism toward Iran's diplomatic overtures to the West, especially in the wake of former President Donald Trump's 2018 exit from a nuclear deal with Iran and major world powers. That agreement was put together by former President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose second and final term comes to a close with this year's vote.
The U.S. exit from the agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was followed by the rollout of intensive sanctions that have wreaked havoc on the Iranian economy. They remain in place today, even as President Joe Biden seeks a U.S. reentry to the deal in exchange for Iran reinstating suspended enrichment limits.
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