Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cast his ballot in Tehran during presidential elections that will select a successor to the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month.
Millions of Iranians are heading to the polls Friday in a snap election called after President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month. Facing severe headwinds, including a flagging economy, regional tensions and the potential re-election of Donald Trump, whose administration worked to isolate the Islamic Republic, Iran’s leadership is looking for a high turnout to endorse its hard-line agenda. Here is what to know about the tightly controlled election.
“The president can influence the tone and tenor of foreign policy, but he doesn’t have independent foreign policy decision-making authority,” said Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, a London-based think tank. “And certainly he is important for directing economic policy and the social agenda and climate inside Iran.” The economy Iran finds itself battling a crushing economic crisis, largely due to stiff global sanctions and international isolation.
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