https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/05/middleeast/iran-president-raisi-inauguration-intl/index.html

By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Ramin Mostaghim, CNN
Updated 1:32 PM EDT, Thu August 05, 2021

Tehran, Iran(CNN)Ebrahim Raisiwas inaugurated asIran’s next presidenton Thursday, signaling the start of a new harder-line era that could herald major shifts in the Islamic Republic’s policies at home and abroad.

After eight years of Hassan Rouhani’s moderate administration, Iran now turns to Raisi, an ultra-conservative judiciary chief whose views are fully in line with the thinking of the country’s powerful clergy andSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the final say on all major matters of state.

Raisi’s inauguration comes at a pivotal time, with Iran currently in indirect negotiations with the United States over how to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. Raisi will also face the task of reviving his country’s economy, which has been battered in recent years by the previous US administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign…