Iran’s New ‘Reformist’ President Is Anything But
Masoud Pezeshkian at a final campaign rally on July 3, 2024, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi via Getty Images)
‘He’s a garden-variety regime guy’ loyal to the Ayatollah and his Revolutionary Guards.
If you saw the headlines in the Western press about Iran’s election over the weekend, you might have thought it had yielded a miracle: the country’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is a “reformer.”
Spoiler alert. He is not. But it’s worth examining why so many media outlets, including The New York Times and NPR, have leapt at the chance to declare Peze…
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