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Iran's New President Ebrahim Raisi To Take Office in August

Ebrahim Raisi, an ultraconservative cleric hand-picked by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, will take office in August. At his first press conference, Raisi called on the United States to rejoin the 2015 nuclear agreement from which former President Trump withdrew.

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