The tough Ebrahin Raisi elected president of Iran. Hard times are preparing for the peace talks
Ultra- conservative cleric Ebrahim Rais i won a landslide victory in Iran's presidential election, potentially taking the oil country on a more hostile course to the West as world powers attempt to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. internally and externally, after the moderate candidates were almost all excluded from the elections.
Raisi garnered 17.8 million votes and the only moderate candidate in the race, Abdolnaser Hemmati, finished third with 2.4 million votes, Jamal Orf, head of Iran's presidential election headquarters, said in a statement on TV. state, adding that we are 90% in the vote count.
Data provided by Orf indicates that voter turnout was 48%, the lowest in a presidential vote in the history of the Islamic Republic, with Raisi securing 62% of the votes cast. Millions of voters stayed home after most of the moderate and reformist candidates were disqualified from the race, and this facilitated Raisi's victory.
The newly elected president, 60, could complicate efforts to restore a historic nuclear deal that has major implications for Middle East security and global oil markets.
The US exit from the deal under former President Donald Trump has empowered hardliners and princes in Iran, who have always been critical of the deal and won control of parliament last year.
On Saturday, reformist candidate Hemmati, who stepped aside as central bank governor to run for president, congratulated Raisi in an Instagram post. President Hassan Rouhani visited his would-be successor in person to congratulate him, according to state television.
Raisi is an austere cleric who is deeply hostile to the West, he has been critical of the 2015 nuclear deal in the past but told voters during his campaign that he intended to preserve it. His election comes as world powers are trying to revive the deal during talks in Vienna before Rouhani leaves office in the coming months. A mission now necessary, given that, despite his promises, the new president promises to be a very hard nut to bite. Almost a blessing for Israel which opposes the agreement as a whole.
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