Iran Braces for Hardline President With Nuclear Deal in Balance
- Reformists mostly excluded from June presidential election
- Likely frontrunner is ultra-conservative who runs judiciary
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Iranians will get to choose from a field of mostly hardline candidates hostile to the West and skeptical of the country’s troubled nuclear deal when they pick their next president in June.
The front-runner in the final list of seven candidates, published by the Interior Ministry, is the current head of the judiciary, ultraconservative cleric, Ebrahim Raisi.