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The election was pitting the hard-liners against the moderates
Iranian President-elect Mohammad Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and lawmaker, was a relatively little-known candidate during the presidential election. He received over 15 million votes, compared to Hardline candidate Saeed Jalili’s 12 million. Pezeshkian did not make any big changes to a government that leaves important matters of state to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during…
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The Iranian regime may be at a point of no return following the recent protests
Thousands of people took part in anti-government protests across Iran after a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman died in the custody of the country’s morality police on Sunday. Mahsa Amini died after she was detained for failing to wear a head scarf. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called Mahsa’s death an act of “terrorism” and…