2024-07-06 10:44:00
Member of Parliament since 2008 for five consecutive terms representing Tabriz, Masoud Pezeshkian won the elections in Iran, although he was not among the favorites. The only reformist candidate accepted by the Guardian Council, Pezeshkian first ‘removed’ in the first round the announced winner of the elections, the conservative (or leader) Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, and finally the progress of the ultra-conservative (or paydari) in the second round , Saeed Jalili .
It is Pezeshkian The ninth presidential election of the Islamic Republic with 16,384,403 votes out of a total of 30,530,157 votes, while his opponent Jalili received 13,538,179 (the rest are empty and blank ballots). The return is close to 50%, significantly higher than the first round, when it stayed below 40%, but still below the threshold that would have restored the type of right to the political-religious establishment. He will succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a plane crash on June 19 in the north-west of Iran together with the then Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Born on September 29, 1954 in Mahabad, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Pezeshkian is an Azeri tribe like the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. There is a game in your life. In 1994 he lost his wife and one of his children in a car accident and was forced to raise her two sons and a daughter alone.
Cardiologist by training, Pezeshkian is rector of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. His His political career began between 1997 and 2001, during the government of Mohammad Khatami, as the deputy minister of Health.. In Khatami’s second term he was promoted to minister, while between 2016 and 2020 he became the first deputy of the Majlis (Parliament). Both in 2013 and 2021 he ran for President, but without notable results.
We had Conservative in private life, but a reformist in politics is defined as Pezeshkian, whose loyalty to the principles of the Islamic Republic and the principles of Khamenei is never questioned. Observers do not expect major foreign policy achievements from his presidencyEspecially if Donald Trump is re-elected in the United States, whose decision in 2018 to withdraw unconditionally from the nuclear deal (JCPOA) has prevented the reformist President of Hassan Rouhani. Peseshkian it is not an anti-system candidate – “We will be friends with everyone except Israel”, he said during the election campaign – but on some points it is very clear.
The first concerns the sanctions, which you do not hesitate to define as “a disaster” for the economy, devarated by inflation. President-elect He has expressed on several occasions the need to negotiate with the West to get the restrictions lifted. A scenario that seems far-fetched today, but which in the coming months could be closer to reality, especially if his plan to draw heavily on Rohani’s political experience for the selection of ministers has been confirmed. Many are betting that Mohammad Javad Zarif will return to Foreign Affairs, who – in addition to being Pezeshkian’s political ‘godfather’ – for years was the ‘kind’ of the eyes of Iran as well as the protagonist of the failed negotiations of it leads to the place of Jcpoa.
“Pezeshkian spoke strongly about the need for Iran to resolve tensions with the West” by “direct negotiations instead of talking through mediators“Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute said, noting that the president-elect made this proposal in a situation in which it does not seem possible that Trump can become the next president of the United States. “It will be a big change that the Iranians agree to do direct partnership with the United States especially with Trump as president”, he added, does not hide the problems that make “reviving the nuclear deal very difficult. But there may now be political will – at least on Iran’s side – for a new deal. Whether it’s on the American side is a different story. ”
With Pezeshkian it is reasonable to expect an opening especially in the level of social justice and rights. The president-elect, who is among the politicians seeking information on the 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini while in police custody, announced a relaxation of the strict dress code and greater freedoms for young peoplearguing that there are no Islamic texts that allow authorities to attack or arrest women who do not wear the hijab.
His attention to these two delicate issues, considered insurmountable red lines by ultra-conservative voters, was appreciated by voters, as the results of the polls show. The 69-year-old’s winning strategy has been to attract depressed voters, especially the younger generation.and convince them that the presidential election is an issue and that the result of the election can bring real change in their lives.
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