Iran's conservative-moderate tensions to return under Pezeshkian

Women's rights, social media, nuclear deal and FATF will be sources of friction

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Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian speaks a day after the presidential election on July 6. © AP

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

With the election of Masoud Pezeshkian on July 5, a moderate and reformist politician has become the ninth president of Iran. This marks a significant political shift that may revive the bipolar dynamic between conservatives and reformists/moderates in Iranian politics.

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