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.
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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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