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Iran’s next president
July 12 , 2024
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- Masoud Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old former heart surgeon, won Iran's presidential election.
- He will emphasise on civil liberties, greater gender equality, and socio-economic development, as well as increased engagement with the international community.
- Iran has been seeing high rates of inflation and unemployment, due to sanctions and worsened by years of mismanagement.
- Iran has been under US economic and military sanctions since 1979.
- In 2015, Iran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), popularly known as the “Iran nuclear deal”, with the P5+1 (the US, the UK, Russia, France, China and Germany) and the European Union.
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