Iran s Election Already Has a Likely Right-Wing Winner, But Nuclear Talks Will Go On
On 5/25/21 at 4:39 PM EDT
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 Abd
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N APRIL 10th Iran had two occasions for cheer. One was the resumption of talks, earlier in the week, in Vienna to revive the multinational nuclear deal that Donald Trump, then America’s president, abandoned in 2018. The other was the celebration of National Nuclear Technology Day, which featured performers dressed as nuclear scientists, huddled around centrifuges at Natanz, a facility in Isfahan province, singing paeans to Iran’s scientific prowess. Iranian officials announced they had finally rebuilt part of the facility struck by a mysterious explosion last year. Then, on April 11th, the facility was struck again.
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