WITH expectations so high, Hassan Rouhani’s speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday night was never going to be an easy one.
In Iran, radicals will have listened intently to their new president, keen to ensure he would not be too soft on the West, especially the United States – Teheran’s sworn enemy since the 1979 Islamic revolution. After all, 34 years on, the faithful still chant “death to America” every Friday after performing their weekly prayers.
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