Episode Notes:

Reformist Candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s presidential race to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May. Here to discuss the results Afshon Ostovar, an associate professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also the author of Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East, which comes out on August 1, 2024.