Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election, consolidating conservative control over the country’s politics. His opposition to Tehran’s diplomacy could harden Iran’s approach to the U.S. and the West.
TEHRAN—A hard-line Iranian judge opposed to the country’s outreach to the West won, consolidating conservative control over the country’s politics, as Tehran attempts to revive an international nuclear accord that would free the country of some U.S. sanctions.
Millions of Iranians stayed home, partly to protest moves by the clerical establishment to tip the election in Mr. Raisi’s favor before any ballots were cast. In the weeks before the vote, the country’s election supervisory body hadThe results also reflect apathy among Iranian voters toward the reformist and moderate candidates. About 2.4 million Iranians, or about 4% of eligible voters, cast ballots for Mr. Hemmati.
“This election makes explicit what most Iranians have already known implicitly: that the Islamic Republic will not countenance any peaceful reform,” Mr. Alvandi said. “That erodes what little popular legitimacy the current political system has left.”People lined up to vote in Tehran on Friday. After Mr. Raisi lost the 2017 presidential election to the incumbent president, Mr. Rouhani, the supreme leader appointed him head of the judiciary in 2019.
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