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New Iranian President
Topic Started: Jun 16 2013, 11:10 AM (73 Views)
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Hassan Rohani, the moderate of the Iranian elections has won the Iranian elections in the first round with 50.7% of the vote. There were 6 candidates, with 4 "hard-liners" and two more moderate candidates. Rohani supports more personal freedoms and is concerned about unemployment and the economy, he wishes to do away with the morality police which enforce muslim beliefs. However, he still supports the nuclear program but was also supported by moderates who were not allowed to run last election.

It's also unclear just how much power the President has, as the Ayatollah and the clerics in the country hold tremendous sway and power.
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Personally, although I'm glad to see a more moderate (and hopefully more sane) president, I doubt he'll be able to do much, or change much either.

As you say, a lot of the real power is held by the more conservative religious establishment, which I think will block anything more than minor change.

I'm sure Rohani will be able to do something, but it won't be much.

This is rather off topic, but I was once on a course with a man from Iran. His family live in Tehran, and he actually invited me out there. I didn't go (I barely knew him, and didn't feel safe going out to Iran by myself aged 16 :P ), but I've always wanted to go.

Apparently they're really friendly out there, and the history of the region is fascinating.
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I'm a bit skeptical about how moderate he really is, I presume this is in a rather relative sense rather than absolute. And probably has more to do with how extreme the other candidates are. There is little Western trade with Iran, and the incentives to increase it are just not there. The Sunni Muslim countries in the Middle East will do everything they can do insist to the West that Iran are still our enemies etc. A lot of Iran's economy is based on selling oil to China, and importing goods from China.
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Definitely relative. I don't think that them having trade with China makes them extreme though.
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I agree with NES.

I'm also uncertain about how moderate he really is, and how much of that is some aim to appease the West and to give some idea of 'progress'. I guess time will tell. Even if he wants to make a lot of changes he is quite limited, even the last President faced some obstacles with the Ayatollah.
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There is a NYT article stating that they think he was allowed to run to increase the clerics legitimacy and re-gain the peoples support.
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