New Delhi, 19 June 2021

As per news report of BBC, Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi beat three other candidates in a poll in which most would-be candidates were barred from standing. Mr Raisi is Iran's top judge and holds ultra-conservative views. He is under US sanctions and has been linked to past executions of political prisoners. Iran's president is the second-highest ranking official in the country, after the supreme leader. Mr Raisi will have significant influence over domestic policy and foreign affairs. But in Iran's political system it is the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the top religious cleric, who has the final say on all state matters. The country is run according to conservative religious values, and there have been curbs on political freedoms since its Islamic Revolution in 1979. Many Iranians saw this latest election as having been engineered for Mr Raisi to win, and shunned the poll.

Source -BBC

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