This is a guest post by MAROOSHA MUZAFFAR

After eight years of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s presidency, Iran elected to power the reformist leader Hassan Rouhani, 64, in elections held in June this year. On Sunday, August 4, he was sworn in as the President of Iran in a ceremony attended by dignitaries from at least 52 countries. Rouhani now holds a job that in the current political landscape of Iran entails, well, a lot of hard work. And his diplomatic skills that so many have already sung paeans to, will now be put to test.  Continue reading Iran-U.S. ties in the wake of Rouhani’s election: Maroosha Muzaffar →