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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: A new era for Iran
Description: On August 5th, Iran inaugurated a new president putting an end to the 8-year presidency of reformist Hassan Rouhani and ushered in a new, hard-line government.
The new president, Ebrahim Raisi is said to be handpicked by the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the man who controls Iran's religious ideology and political ideology. Mr Raisi is a hard-line cleric who won his election amid accusations of corruption and historically low voter turnout.
The new president had vowed in his campaign to continue the nuclear talks in Vienna, in an effort to get US sanctions removed and h...