The New York Times: Masoud Pezeshkian, the reformist candidate who advocated moderate policies at home and improved relations with the West, won the presidential runoff in Iran against a hard-line rival, according to results released by the interior ministry on Saturday. nyti.ms/3xMgPZc

Masoud Pezeshkian, the reformist candidate who advocated moderate policies at home and improved relations with the West, won the presidential runoff in Iran against a hard-line rival, according to results released by the interior ministry on Saturday. nyti.ms/3xMgPZc

What on earth is a "reformist" in a hardened theocracy?

he kind of sucks too

How long before Iran is more democratic and less theocratic than the United States,

It'll be a while; this election was only for President, but the Supreme Leader ayatollahs are still ultimately in charge.

It’s a good thing the final word in the us government doesn’t come down to an unelected council of reactionaries

sorry someone just handed me a memo

At least they are moving in the right direction, whereas we are moving in the radical far right direction

Like Gorbachev with the USSR?

How Pezeshkian's victory hurts Joe Biden. Number 193 in our series examining Biden's age since the debate.

When are you guys meeting to plan how to torpedo his candidacy?

Congratulations Masoud Pezeshkian

So is he a CIA plant or what?

Be pretty ironic if Iran went down a reformist path while the US goes down a theocratic one. Yeah, the crossover point is a long way off, but still.....

Iran went woke, nooooo

The New York Times must destroy him.

How long before he's assassinated by the hard-liners?

I hope this will be a step in the right direction.

But is he old? I need to know how old he is.

This can be a chance for a new treaty with Iran, which in many ways is our natural ally. So WHY is the NYT pushing for a presidential candidate who who withdrew from JPCOA, hates Iran tough he knows nothing about it, and wants to join Netanyahu in making war on Iran?

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