Iran’s hardliners are trading recriminations over their loss in last week’s presidential election after millions of their supporters shifted their votes to the reformist president-elect.
Acrimony has increased between backers of the two hardline contenders, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of parliament, and the more radical Saeed Jalili, both of whom declined to quit the race to unite behind a single hardline candidate, as in previous Iranian votes.
The hardline grouping is made up of social conservatives opposed to a rapprochement with the US. Ghalibaf had been viewed as the regime’s preferred choice to win the tightly controlled poll, but a surprise decision to allow reformist Masoud Pezeshkian to run culminated in his victory.
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