Change of heart surgeon: Iran’s reformist president
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
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Masoud Pezeshkian rode to victory on a promise of reforms that Iran’s people seem desperately to want. Will the former heart surgeon be permitted to carry them out? Ukraine has been getting a wartime pass on servicing its debts, but its creditors will soon come knocking (10:05). And why thousands of plutocrats are moving to Dubai (17:00).
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| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. One of the helping hands that Ukraine has been getting as it fends off Russia's invasion |
| 1:00.0 | is a long delay to its death servicing. |
| 1:02.0 | But some of that is coming to an end soon. |
| 1:05.0 | We ask how or if the country can keep its creditors happy. |
| 1:11.0 | And there are so many reasons to go to Dubai, the sun, the shopping, and then there are the |
| 1:16.6 | low taxes, the Russian exiles and the freedom from European populists. |
| 1:21.0 | Our correspondent tells us the United Arab Emirates is a magnet for millionaires. But first |
| 1:38.0 | sometimes, sometimes real political change can start not with protests, movements, |
| 1:46.3 | charismatic leaders, but rather with an accident. |
| 1:49.4 | We've heard in the last hour that Iran's president and foreign minister have both died in a helicopter crash. |
| 1:57.8 | Suddenly, President Abraham Raise, a hardliner whose conservative grip never loosened even as the country |
| 2:03.7 | simmered with protests was gone and the country's supreme leader Ayatollah |
| 2:08.5 | homine wanted the job filled quickly. That might easily have meant rigging an election. He's done it before, but |
| 2:15.8 | this time he didn't, and on Friday more than 16 million Iranians voted to take the country |
| 2:21.3 | in a new direction. Whether or not it's the reset that Iranian voters want, it seems to be one that the |
| 2:35.6 | Supreme Leader might need. The cry for change could hardly have been clearer. |
| 2:41.6 | Nicholas Pelham is a Middle East correspondent for the economist. |
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