Hassan Rouhani
- Author
- BBC Radio 4
- Published
- Sat 28 Sep 2013
- Episode Link
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bpsxd
Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani has been centre of attention at the UN this week. He's promising a new approach to talks with the West over his country's nuclear programme.
He is certainly a change from his abrasive anti-Western predecessor. Rouhani studied in Britain, loves Bogart films and Thomas Hardy novels and is fond of designer clerical robes.
So, Mary Ann Sieghart asks, is all that merely a matter of presentation? Or is he a completely new kind of Iranian leader?
Producer: Heba Ayoub
Editor: Richard Knight.
