Vakil said that “it’s going to rest on if the general public, that 60% who stayed home, are going to come out and protect themselves from those hard-line views" Jalili holds.
Iran to hold runoff election with reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili after low-turnout vote
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Facing pressure over its failure to deliver on promises of sanctions relief, the “system is directly signaling to the Iranian people they’re not going to tolerate dissent,” said Sanam Vakil, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House.
Why Iran cracks down at home, cozies up to Moscow
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