Israel’s Bennett calls election of new Iranian president a “final wake-up call”

Israel’s new prime minister Naftali Bennett gives an address before the new cabinet at the Knesset in Jerusalem. (File/AFP)

• Ebrahim Raisi is the President-elect of Iran, having been elected in the 2021 Iranian presidential election

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday called the election of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s president a “final wake-up call” for the world, the Ynet news site reported.

Briefing his cabinet, Bennett said that, after the election of Raisi, a hard-line judge who is under US sanctions for human rights abuses, world powers should reconsider talks on a new Iranian nuclear deal, according to Ynet.