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Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian waves to his supporters in a meeting a day after the presidential election, at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, July 6, 2024
MILDLY reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s run-off presidential election, a vote count showed on Saturday.
Mr Pezeshkian, who beat hardliner Saeed Jalili, promised to reach out to the West and ease enforcement of the country’s headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic republic.
The president-elect’s campaign did not propose radical changes to Iran’s Shi’ite theocracy and he has acknowledged Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the final arbiter of all matters of state.
KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran