"The brutal reality is that the whole notion that Iran has just elected a more moderate president is nothing more than a confidence trick perpetrated by the regime's hardliners who, after the intense pressure they have come under in recent months because of the brutal repression of anti-regime protesters, realised they needed to take drastic measures to justify the regime's legitimacy."

Iran's "Moderate" President Is a Just Another Hardliner-in-Disguise to Glide in Its Nuclear Weapons Programme

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20784/iran-president-moderate-hardliner