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Although Iran’s strategic direction will remain unchanged, its foreign policy will not. There will also be changes in tactics, tone and priorities. What happens next will depend on the Biden administration’s political will to salvage the JCPOA or force Iran to reconsider its strategic direction.
Raisi is suspicious of the West’s intentions but has supported nuclear negotiations to revive the JCPOA.
Principlist Ebrahim Raisi was elected Iran’s next president on 18 June 2021. He will succeed moderate President Hassan Rouhani in early August. Raisi will enter office at a crucial juncture as Iran and the West are engaged in ongoing technical negotiations aimed at reviving the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Raisi’s landslide win in presidential elections will have important implications for Iran’s relations with the outside world. Also, it will impact the strategic and political environment in the Middle East and beyond.
Iran’s new president is
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Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989
Not to be confused with his predecessor, Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ali Khamenei | |
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Khamenei in 2025 | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 6 August 1989[nb] | |
President | |
Preceded by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
In office 9 October 1981 – 16 August 1989 | |
Supreme Leader | |
Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Rajai |
Succeeded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
In office 7 February 1988 – 4 June 1989 | |
Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
In office 15 August 1983 – 4 June 1989 | |
Constituency | Tehran Province[1] |
Majority | 2,800,353 (87.8%)[2] |
In office 28 May 1980 – 13 October 1981 | |
Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
Majority | 1,405,976 (65.8%)[3] |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 14 January 1980 | |
Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini |