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Iran's new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 21, 2021
IRANIAN communists called for a united struggle of all progressive forces today after the election of the “bloodstained” candidate Ebrahim Raisi as the country’s next president in a widely boycotted poll.
The Tudeh Party of Iran (TPI) said in a statement that the turnout in the election, the lowest in the history of the Islamic republic, was a damning indictment that called into question the legitimacy of the theocratic regime.
It said that the low levels of participation were a vindication of its calls for a boycott.
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