Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian has been elected Iran’s new president and has pledged to end the country’s ‘isolation’. However, questions have been raised as to whether he would be able to introduce reforms to the ultraconservative leadership. Global Affairs journalist Tara Kangarlou tells The World’s Beverley O’Connor the extremely low voter turnout shows that Iranians are disillusioned about the nation’s politics and voted for “the lesser of two evils”.

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