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Masoud Pezeshkian's election: a reprieve for the Iranian regime
Masoud Pezeshkian, the new president of Iran. Iran’s clerical regime had never in its 45-year history faced a challenge as significant as the one that emerged in late summer 2022. The Mahsa protests, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in …