#Iran's ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim #Raisi was elected president with just under 62 percent of the vote. Voter turnout for Friday's election was 48.8 percent of the more than 59 million eligible voters - a record low for a presidential election in the Islamic republic. Henri Barkey, a professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, gives us his analysis.
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