over a drone attack on a tanker that is blamed on tehran. fred pleitgen is live in tehran. this means essentially hardliners will now be in control of all levels of government. just a stunning moment. >> reporter: yeah, certainly is. it will be a very difficult moment and as you said, it is also going to be a real change here going on in iran's domestic policy but also in its foreign policy as well. things could certainly get a lot more difficult for the biden administration here not just as far as policy toward iran is concerned, but as far as the entire middle east is concerned as well. we saw that event today where supreme leader accepted ebrahim raisi as becoming the new president soon and raisi says iranians don't want to rely on any sort of negotiations with foreign powers, obviously meaning with the united states. they have said that they want to stay in the negotiations to try to he radio strive the iran