Raisi in one-man race to be next Iran president
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
June 09, 2021 22:29
A poster of presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi at a campaign center in Tehran, Iran, June 8, 2021. (Reuters)
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Iran’s presidential election will be held next week and the regime appears determined to make Ebrahim Raisi the next president. The regime is applying the lessons it learned from the previous vote to ensure Raisi wins.
The theocratic establishment was hoping that Raisi would win the 2017 election. However, the Guardian Council approved some moderates, such as the incumbent Hassan Rouhani, to also run for the presidency. From the perspective of the regime, people were less likely to vote Rouhani in for a second term due to his administration’s mismanagement of the economy, as well as Rouhani’s failure to fulfill his campaign promises of improving people’s social, political and religious freedoms.