Iran’s president-elect said Monday he wouldn’t meet President Joe Biden nor negotiate over Tehran’s ballistic missile programme and its support of regional militias, sticking to a hard-line position following his landslide victory in last week’s election.

Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi also described himself as a ‘defender of human rights’ when asked about his involvement in the 1988 mass execution of some 5,000 people. It marked the first time he’s been put on the spot on live television over that dark moment in Iranian history at the end of the Iran-Iraq war.