It was supposed to be Masoud Pezeshkian’s moment of crowning glory. Instead, it will be remembered for a dramatic assassination that put Iran on a war footing.
It was July 30, and scores of foreign dignitaries had gathered in Iran’s parliament to attend the swearing-in of Pezeshkian, the Islamic republic’s first reformist president in two decades. The 69-year-old had recently won a snap election, marked by promises to resolve Tehran’s long-running nuclear stand-off with the US and…
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