How Much Power Will Ebrahim Raisi, Iran s New President, Have? nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hard-liner
Ebrahim Raisitook office as president of Iran on Aug. 3, and the conventional wisdom is that a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, just got a lot harder.
Here come the Hezbollahis. With Raisi comes a cadre of more revolutionary regime loyalists associated with Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei; they have been referred to as the New Hezbollahis by
Ali Hashem. This doesn’t necessarily mean, however, that Raisi doesn’t have a pragmatic streak, or won’t deal with the West. It’s possible to foresee that while the decision to engage with the West will not change, the tone, expectations and ceiling are going to see a clear shift, writes Hashem.
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