The defeated man of the election; How did Mohsen Razai become the decision maker of the war?
🔸 In the last election in which Mohsen Razai participated to become the president, the number of invalid votes was more than his votes. The results that once again made the name of the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards the subject of political jokes. He came to the field with a promise of a subsidy of 450 thousand tomans, but in the 1400 elections he could not get enough votes to reach the priest.
Five years later, the same unsuccessful candidate is sitting across from Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, delivering a message from Mujtaba Khamenei, the third leader of the Islamic Republic, and receiving a letter from Jeddy Vance, the Vice President of the United States. His new role as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council linked his name to decisions that could affect the continuation of the war, the nuclear negotiations and Iran's relations with foreign powers. 🔸 Between these two pictures, Razai did not win a new victory in the elections, but what changed was the combination of power in the Islamic Republic after the war, the killing of a number of senior political and military officials and the succession of Mujtaba Khamenei instead of his father; According to Hamidreza Azizi, Iran's senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, Rezaei was given the opportunity to reach the position he has been seeking for years.
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