Hassan Rouhani is the president of Iran. He was elected to office in 2013 then he defeated Saeed Jalili, replacing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rouhani is described as a "moderate" with good relationships with reformists. He ran on a platform which included working to "ease international sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear programme." [1]
At the same time Rouhani called the sanctions of the USA and the European Union "unfair and unjustified" and is loyal to Ali Khamenei, who holds the real power in Iran.[2]
As a teen Rouhani was a supporter of sharia law and Islamism. In 1979 he become an supporter of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and an protester against the USA and Israel. After the Shah was overthrown, Rouhani was a member of parliament and controlled the Iranian media. He was responsible for censoring any kind of information which critized Ali Khamenei. Rouhani was also a friend of the terrorist Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who ordered the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.[3] Later he was the nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005 under Mohammad Khatami.[4] In this time he armed terrorist organizations and the syrian regime.[5]
? BBC News? http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/will-obama-take-the-moderate-iranian-presidents-bait/? http://frontpagemag.com/2013/majid-rafizadeh/the-truth-about-irans-new-centrist-president/? http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/the-islamic-republic-goes-to-the-polls/? http://frontpagemag.com/2013/majid-rafizadeh/the-truth-about-irans-new-centrist-president/