Enter Raisi World wary as hardliner takes helm in Tehran
Major powers convened again in Vienna this week in an eff ort to revive the Iran nuclear deal, a process complicated by the election as Iranian president of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative cleric deeply antagonistic towards western values.
Israel denounced the incoming Raisi government as a “regime of brutal hangmen” over his involvement in mass executions in 1988 and predicted it would be a pawn in the hands of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
“Raisi’s election is, I would say,
