Does Iran’s Election Matter?

Hassan Rowhani, the most moderate candidate in Iran’s presidential election, won with surprisingly large margins.

New York Times:
“But while the election of the new president, Hassan Rowhani, a former
nuclear negotiator who is considered a moderate compared with the other
candidates, was greeted by some administration officials as the best of
all likely outcomes, they said it did not change the fact that only the
country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would make the final
decision about any concessions to the West. Even so, they said they
wanted to test Mr. Rowhani quickly, noting that although he argued for a
moderate tone in dealing with the United States and its allies when he
was a negotiator, he also boasted in 2006 that Iran had used a previous
suspension of nuclear enrichment to make.”

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