Major powers have convened again in Vienna in an effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal, a process complicated by the election as Iranian president of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative cleric deeply antagonistic towards western values.
Israel denounced the incoming Raisi government as a “regime of brutal hangmen” over his involvement in mass executions in 1988 and predicted it would be a pawn in the hands of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
“Raisi’s election is, I would say, the last chance for world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement, and understand who they are doing business with,” said the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett. “A regime
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