Why the Coming Iranian Elections Will Challenge the Biden Administration Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems inclined to promote a candidate who will quash dissent over someone who could work with the West. Ebrahim Raisi speaks to his supporters in Tehran. (Photo graph by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images.) In the past, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader inevitably gave a speech before a presidential election extolling how the revolution welcomed variety among the men running for office. This was never true, of course: Ali Khamenei and his minions on the Guardian Council, which supervises election...