Jon Gambrell: Why the shadow of Donald Trump hovers over today’s presidential elections in Iran
Candidates' posters in Tehran ahead of the election. Photo: Getty
In the waning moments of Iran’s final televised presidential debate, one of the top candidates to replace the late hard-line president Ebrahim Raisi invoked the name of the one person who perhaps has done more than anyone to change the trajectory of the Islamic Republic’s relationship with the wider world in recent years.
The next president could be “forced to either sell Iran to Trump or spark a dangerous tension in the country” if economic problems aren’t solved, warned Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a candidate in today’s election.
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