Iran’s beleaguered voters do not have much of a choice in this Friday’s presidential election. The regime, dominated by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a fiercely anti-western conservative, ...
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Ebrahim Raisi – Involved In
Khamenei-backed paper tries to secure presidential frontrunner’s win
Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of Khamenei-funded daily newspaper Kayhan, has called Sunday for shortlisting conservative candidates for the June 18 presidential election.
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Frontrunner Ebrahim Raisi unfit for Iran leadership over role in 1988 massacres
Ebrahim Raisi: The ultra-conservative front runner in Iran’s presidential election is unfit to take power because of his enthusiastic leadership of the 1988 Iran prison massacres that killed about ...
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Iran has rigged its election to favour Ebrahim Raisi
It is probably a bad sign when one of the few memorable moments in a presidential debate is an admission that the ballot is rigged. The candidates in Iran’s ...
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Iran’s embarrassing military mishaps and years of misplaced priorities
A series of recent military mishaps makes it clear that Iran has failed to invest in its regular armed forces, even as it heavily bankrolls the IRGC amid an ...
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Iran nuclear talks will survive presidential vote
Iran’s presidential vote next week will likely replace a moderate with an ultraconservative, but this shouldn’t derail ongoing nuclear talks because there is a broad political consensus in Tehran ...
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