Iran is set to elect a new president on Friday, with some 61 million voters called upon to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May. Despite the title of president, Raisi was only number two in Iran’s power structure as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei functions as the head of state and has the final say in all strategic matters. He is also commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces. The Guardian Council, an extremely conservative supervisory body, had only authorized six candidates for the election. Earlier in the week, two conservative hardliner candidat…