Iran votes in head-to-head between diplomacy and resistance
Iranian voters will decide the fate of moderate President Hassan Rouhani and his policy of engagement with the West on Friday as he goes head-to-head with hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi.Rouhani has spent four years trying to pull Iran out of its global isolation, reaching a 2015 deal with world powers that ended some sanctions in exchange for curbs to its nuclear programme.Raisi has agreed to stick by the nuclear accord but says Rouhani put too much trust in the West.
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