Iran's Presidential Election: Impact on the Islamic Republic's Policies

The engineering of president-elect Ebrahim Raisi’s victory in Iran’s recent election on 18 June 2021 constitutes a potential domestic and foreign policy watershed. Designed to ensure conservative control of all levers of power in Iran and help Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei manage his succession, manipulation of the election swept aside the Islamic republic’s long-standing democratic pretensions. Moreover, efforts to achieve American and Iranian agreement on a return to the 2015 international nuclear agreement could be complicated by the fact that the US has sanctioned Raisi for his troubled human rights record. This webinar will explore what impact the rise of Raisi will have on regional security in the Middle East.

This public talk was conducted online via Zoom on Tuesday, 6 July 2021, from 4pm to 5.30pm (SGT).

Click here for more details on the event: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/irans-presidential-election-impact-on-the-islamic-republics-policies/