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tabletmag.com – As the Biden administration gives every indication of removing most sanctions on the world’s top state sponsor of terror in pursuit of its nuclear deal, that regime has produced a new president personally culpable—and sanctioned by the United States—for large-scale crimes against humanity. As the handpicked sixty-year-old Ebrahim Raisi is also likely to succeed the ailing Ali Khamenei …

Al-Arabia – Iran accused the United States on Tuesday of interference for saying its presidential election on Friday was neither free nor fair, Iranian state media reported. A US State Department spokesman said on Monday the United States viewed the process that made Ebrahim Raisi Iran’s president-elect as “pretty manufactured,” reiterating the US view that the election was neither free …

Al-Arabia – A hardline victory in Iran’s presidential election has tilted the domestic balance of power toward the country’s anti-Western clergy and away from officials chosen by popular vote, a shift Tehran may one day seek to make permanent, six analysts who follow the Islamic republic’s politics say. In a tightly controlled race on Friday marked by voter apathy, judiciary …

Iranwire – In his first press conference after his electoral victory, Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raeesi had a clear message for the West: “The situation in Iran has changed.” This message was emphasized through both the tone and the substance of Raeesi’s responses to reporters’ questions, especially about his role in the mass executions of political dissidents of 1988, the allegations of crimes …

Iranwire – “Let the government be unified and fall completely into its own hands, so that it can be held responsible for everything, good or bad.” Such was the argument of some of those who preferred to stay at home on Friday, June 18, rather than vote in an election whose outcome they believed was already known. A flicker of …