RFE/RL's Radio Farda correspondent Mehrdad Mirdamadi talks about warning signs in the early hours after voting in Iran concluded, the reformists' lack of a single unifying figure, and Supreme Leader Khamenei's extraordinary role in anointing a winner.
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