With Raisi gone, where will new Iran president take the region? - Analysis

Will a reformist win and chart a new course with the West and nuclear deal negotiations or will another hardliner win and continue Raisi’s anti-Western stance?

Presidential candidate Saeed Jalili votes at a polling station in a snap presidential election to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi following his death in a helicopter crash, in Tehran, Iran June 28, 2024.

(photo credit: Stringer/WANA)

ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

JULY 4, 2024 18:52

Updated: JULY 4, 2024 23:01

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