IRAN WARNING
Israel’s newly installed prime minister, Naftali Bennett, slammed the election of conservative judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s president, charging that he would be heading a “regime of brutal hangmen” with which world powers should not negotiate a new nuclear deal. Speaking at his first cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 20, on the day that the sixth round of indirect talks between Washington and Tehran was held in Vienna, Bennett said this was “the last chance for world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement, and understand who they are doing business with.” Raisi, 60, a close ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is due to take over from Hassan Rouhani in August after winning Iran’s June 18 presidential election.