Rouhani’s defeat in upcoming election to put nuclear deal at risk
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By Trend
If President Hassan Rouhani loses the upcoming presidential
election to his conservative rivals, the nuclear deal will face
serious challenges, an expert believes.
“If Rouhani loses, given the US President Donald Trump’s
anti-Iranian policy, the odds are that tension will escalate,
putting the nuclear agreement between Iran and the six world
powers at serious risk,” James Dorsey, senior fellow at Nanyang
Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International
Studies, told Trend Apr. 25.
President Trump clearly intends to turn up pressure on Iran and
perhaps even attempt to provoke it to cancel the nuclear agreement,
Dorsey said, adding that if anybody, can keep a cool head in those
circumstances it is likely to be Rouhani even though he’ll be under
pressure from hardliners.
He further forecasted that the reformist-backed Rouhani will be
the winner of the presidential election which is scheduled to be
held in May 19.
“I suspect Rouhani will have a tough fight but ultimately win.”
Besides Rouhani, Vice President Eshag Jahangiri, the custodian of
Razavi holy shrine Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, Mayor of Tehran Mohammad
Bagher Ghalibaf, former culture minister, Seyed Mostafa Agha
Mirsalim and reformist politician Mostafa Hashemi-Taba were the
only qualified among more than a thousand candidates.
Conservatives support Raeisi and Ghalibaf.
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