In The News

Iranian voters have demonstrated patience, rejecting a populist hardliner and reelecting President Hassan Rouhani who has taken incremental steps to integrate Iran with the world. The pragmatist won 57 percent of the vote, a decisive win despite analysts’ predictions that the vote could be close. “Although the powers of the elected president are limited by those of unelected Supreme Leader...

Foreign policy unites an otherwise divided Iranian electorate. Voters expect security and maintain that requires close ties and even interventions in neighboring states. “Iran’s Quds Force, the wing of the elite Revolutionary Guards responsible for operations abroad, is providing crucial support to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in his country’s six-year war and is active in Iraq, Afghanistan...

Nuclear power is the source about one-fifth of the United Kingdom’s energy, and the government has shifted support in subsidies away from solar and wind toward nuclear power with plans to construct more. “However, the industry relies on foreign companies − based both in the EU and outside − that provide parts, fuel and raw materials,” reports Paul Brown for Climate News Network. France’s ETF owns...