Following the unfortunate plane accident that resulted in the life loss of the mourned president Ebrahim Raisi, Iran, according to the constitution, organised elections in 50 days.
The winner of the elections is Masoud Pezeshkian, the former health minister, a relative moderate conservative islamist, the only one in the race that included other hard-liners and conservatives leaders. The voters presence was reportedly law because in Iran the final decisions are confronted to the unelected parallel state governance of the spiritual leader Ruhollah Khomeini. The campaign promises are not 100% secure as the new promising “reformist” ruler will have to, in his turn consult, for the final decisions the spiritual leader. His reforms would be mild and totally loyal to the spiritual leaders guide lines.
The change would be that the face of the state, the president would be a nicer one towards the West, with the hope that Iran would continue to follow the previous political trends with more ease, having a better negotiator to negotiate the same issues as before.
The new leader promised to be milder regarding the women’s asserted rights, and this could be as well just another way to portray himself as a more appealing negotiator towards the West.
Iran wishes to renegotiate the nuclear national ambition with the other nuclear powers in the world including the US and the negotiations could have a better outcome with a new much more western-like face.
He looks a lot more approachable by the Western leaders indeed, in his normal conventional attire comparing to Ebrahim Raisi, that used to wear religious clothes as the next spiritual leader in line.
We wish to the new Iranian president success in opening Iran more to the world as he wishes to, very carefully though, not to let the world interfere with Iran more than suggesting and advising improvement, but never subjugating Iran to a wrong agenda.