Raisi in one-man race to be next Iran president
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
June 09, 2021 22:29
A poster of presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi at a campaign center in Tehran, Iran, June 8, 2021. (Reuters)
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Iran’s presidential election will be held next week and the regime appears determined to make Ebrahim Raisi the next president. The regime is applying the lessons it learned from the previous vote to ensure Raisi wins.
The theocratic establishment was hoping that Raisi would win the 2017 election. However, the Guardian Council approved some moderates, such as the incumbent Hassan Rouhani, to also run for the presidency. From the perspective of the regime, people were less likely to vote Rouhani in for a second term due to his administration’s mismanagement of the economy, as well as Rouhani’s failure to fulfill his campaign promises of improving people’s social, political and religious freedoms.
KARACHI: When doctors told Furqan bin Imran five years ago that he had an “incurable” genetic bone disorder, the diagnosis explained a lifetime of seemingly inexplicable injuries.
Now that the disease had a name a skeletal abnormality called pycnodysostosis Imran was determined to fight it.
And fight it he did, going on to become a fitness trainer, bodybuilder and YouTuber.
“The news came as a shock to me,” the 21-year-old told Arab News on Monday. “I had already suffered from the disease for 16 years and was trapped in a difficult phase of my life.”
Just that year, Imran had visited the hospital seeking treatment for his 11th fracture the first occurred in 2005 when he was only six.
Why US efforts to counter China’s tech advancements matter to the rest of the world
Cornelia Meyer
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Nothing unites enemies more than a common foe. The US Senate proved that when it overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed to bolster technological and industrial capacity in the technology and innovation space by 68-32 votes. The sum allotted comes in just shy of a quarter of a trillion dollars.
It is particularly noteworthy that the bill was passed on the same day as President Joe Biden ended his charm offensive aimed at convincing Republicans to consent to a $1 trillion+ infrastructure and public works’ program proving that apprehensiveness towards China’s economic and geopolitical ascent is one of the very few issues that Republicans and Democrats can agree on.
UK’s unique opportunity to make ‘Global Britain’ work
Dambisa Moyo
June 09, 2021 22:16
A Royal Navy vessel on patrol near Carbis Bay, Cornwall, ahead of the G7 Summit. (Reuters)
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Skeptics have long argued that the UK is past its peak and trading largely on former glories. They point to the country’s middling rankings in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment education scores, the fact that only one British firm, HSBC, is among the world’s 50 largest public corporations, compared to Germany’s four, and the likelihood that Brexit will ultimately erode, rather than boost, Britain’s global standing.
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(Bloomberg) Iran said itâs preparing to hike oil production even as talks with world powers over how to lift sanctions curbing the nationâs crude exports have so far failed to clinch an agreement.
(Bloomberg) Iran said itâs preparing to hike oil production even as talks with world powers over how to lift sanctions curbing the nationâs crude exports have so far failed to clinch an agreement.
Parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, led by the European Union, are attempting to fully restore the landmark accord that all but collapsed after then-President Donald Trump withdrew three years ago. The negotiations in Vienna aim to ease U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republicâs economy and scale back a significant expansion of its atomic activities.