Fiery former foreign minister enters campaign to elect mild-mannered consensual reformist Masoud Pezeshkian
Javad Zarif, the former foreign minister and probably the Iranian politician best known to the west, has thrown himself into the campaign to elect the reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the country’s president.
Realising that Pezeshkian – if only because he appears uncorrupt – has a chance of winning, the five conservative candidates are under growing pressure to end the split in their votes and rally round one nominee. In recent days, Zarif has become used to dealing with hecklers from the opposition camps. “This is the difference between us and you. We are the majority of this society and we don’t allow a loud and talkative minority to think of itself as the majority,” he shouted at disrupters on Sunday.
Although Zarif is more combative than Pezeshkian, they both argue that careful compromise with the west is not a humiliation but normal for independent nations. “Is it good to negotiate and return empty-handed? Is it good to shout slogans and empty people’s pockets?” “The slogans during the ‘woman, life, freedom’ movement protests showed the old binary divisions between reformists and conservatives that had been so effective in driving millions of voters to the polls do not work any longer. The presence of Zarif may help the turnout a little, and persuade some to give reformism a last chance, but it would be very surprising if it changes much.”
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