Talk Persists Of Hard-Line Woman To Challenge Rohani In Iran Vote
Four months ahead of Iran's presidential election, the absence of a clear challenger to face incumbent Hassan Rohani has led to talk that the gray-bearded clerics who dominate Iran's opaque system might bet on a woman. The political and religious leadership that emerged from the 1979 revolution has so far excluded women from the running for a handful of the most senior posts, including the presidency. With independent polling nearly nonexistent in Iran, it's unclear whether a conservative establishment that gives a woman half the legal ...
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