Iranians vote for new president to replace Ebrahim Raisi

Iranians are headed to the polls Friday for a snap election to choose a new president, with a slate of mostly conservative candidates seeking to replace hard-line leader Ebrahim Raisi after he died last month in a helicopter crash.The vote comes as Iran copes with multiple crises, including an ailing economy and tensions with Israel. Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is the second Iranian president to die while in office since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.For Iran’s ruling clerics, a smooth, predictable election with high voter turnout is important both for the…