Iran election outcome could bring foreign policy shift

Outlook for nuclear talks to be affected by voters' choice of president

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Images of Iran's six approved presidential candidates loom over a Tehran street on June 17: 80 people applied to run in the election. (WANA via Reuters)

Vali Kaleji is a senior research fellow with the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies in Tehran.

The next president of Iran, to be chosen by the public next week, could potentially make significant adjustments to the country's foreign policy stance. Yet his leeway to do so will be constrained within Iran's political structure by the primacy of the supreme leader in fundamental foreign policy decisions. 

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