Ebrahim Raisi has been declared the winner in the 13th Iranian presidential election that took place earlier in the week. He will soon succeed the incumbent president…
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Saturday tweeted his reaction to the outcome of the 13th Iranian presidential election, offering an unflattering opinion on the country’s president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi, whom Lapid dubbed the „Butcher of Tehran“. He also claimed that Raisi is „committed to the regime’s nuclear ambitions and to its campaign of global terror“. His election should prompt renewed determination to immediately halt Iran’s nuclear program and put an end to its destructive regional ambitions. Lior Haiat, a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, also slammed Raisi, reiterating Tel Aviv’s fear that Iran seeks to develop nuclear weapons and calling for the purported program to be „halted immediately“. The remarks were pointedly made in light of ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and the signatories of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to restore the nuclear deal that the Trump administration caused the US to exit in 2018.
