, the new president of Iran, pledges a path of moderation, thereby taking a route much different from that of his predecessor, the combative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rouhani, a former nuclear negotiator, has expressed a desire to re-establish relations with the West but in the end Rouhani, like all other Iranian presidents, takes his orders from the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who leads the country's conservative establishment.
