In Iran's low-turnout election, did freedom find a voice?

Tehran — Ibrahim Raisi, Iran's conservative judiciary chief, won last Friday's election in a landslide. But Iran's official media don't mention a couple of embarrassing facts. For instance, 3 million voters spoiled their ballots, and more than half of Iran's eligible voters didn't even show up at the polls. 

Turnout was the lowest in the Islamic Republic's history. It's not clear how much that fact will weaken Raisi's legitimacy, but it is a sensitive subject.  At his first press conference on Monday, Raisi implied that it was the coronavirus pandemic that had kept people away.