Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the theocracy’s top figure in the presidential vote
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker emerged on Monday as the most-prominent candidate from within the country’s Shiite theocracy in the race for the June 28 presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month. The entry of Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former Tehran mayor with … Read more