Candidates affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards looked on course to ...
DUBAI - Candidates affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday, reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and across the country after a vote stacked in favor of loyalists to the supreme leader.
A clean sweep for hardliners would confirm the political demise of the country’s pragmatist politicians, weakened by Washington’s decision to quit a 2015 nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions in a move that stifled rapprochement with the West. Such a result would help the Guards, already omnipresent in Iranians’ daily lives, to increase their substantial influence in political, social and economic affairs.
President Donald Trump raised the stakes in his standoff with Tehran when Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. drone strike at Baghdad airport in January.
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