 Ayatollah Khamenei's favorite was another candidate, and surprisingly the people may have beat him as his own game. He's not a regime critic, he's a loyalist after all, but it does matter who the president is. A president under Iran's political system doesn't have the final say, but is an administrator who can set the tone. As you remember, in Iran back in 2015, we had a moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, who struck that nuclear deal with the West only