Major powers gather in Vienna to take stock of 2015 deal in wake of hardline conservative’s poll victory
Major powers have convened again in Vienna in a bid to revive the Iran nuclear deal complicated by the election of as president of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative cleric deeply antagonistic to western values.
Israel immediately denounced the incoming Raisi government as a “regime of brutal hangmen” over his involvement in mass executions in 1988 and predicted it would be a pawn in the hands of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
