Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In Bangladesh, too many young women are trafficked, ending up condemned to lives of indentured servitude in the country's sprawling brothels.

Our correspondent meets a remarkable woman who first came to one at age 12 and ended up in charge of it.

And in the track and field events at the Tokyo Olympics, world records have not just been broken, they've been smashed.

That may well be, partly, down to the high-tech shoes some competitors are wearing.

We ask how they work and whether it's fair.

But first... Iran's new president, Abraham Raeisi, was sworn in yesterday after winning a rigged election in June.

The conservative cleric was handpicked by the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Chaminé,

who's increasingly been consolidating power in the hands of hardliners.

At the ceremony, Mr. Raeisi spoke of countries protecting their interests, of balanced foreign policy.

The handover of power comes after two assaults on international shipping in the past week, widely suspected to be the work of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's military force often implicated

in the region's proxy battles. All this puts pressure on efforts to constrain Iran's nuclear

ambitions, which have steadily expanded as talks to revive a more abundant nuclear deal have stalled.

Yesterday, American officials urged Mr. Raeisi back to the negotiating table, but it's not

clear whether his conservative connections will prove a help or a hindrance.

The new president of Iran, Ibrahim Raezi, he's a hard-lying cleric and he sees isolation and

staunch religious nationalism as the best way to preserve the Islamic Republic.

Nicholas Pelham is our Middle East correspondent.

He's a narrow and suspicious view of the world and of the West in particular, and he's

replacing Hassan Rahani, a cleric who's often been seen as more

of a reformist. And so the change in the administration is likely to have implications for Western

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