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Today’s presidential election in Iran pits incumbent Hassan Rouhani against the conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a possible successor to the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
The choice Iranians face are between economic isolation and resistance to the world or reintegration in the world economy, argues Shahram Akbarzadeh, and Rouhani’s economic achievements over the last fours years may well give him an edge.
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Mohammad Ali Marizad/Tasnim News Agency/Wikipedia
Shahram Akbarzadeh, Deakin University
Iran's economic recovery and reintegration into the global economy have become key electoral topics.
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Health + Medicine
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M-J Milloy, University of British Columbia; M. Eugenia Socias, University of British Columbia
Scientists have never found a medicine to help crack users who want to decrease their consumption. Canadian researchers think cannabis might be the answer.
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Politics + Society
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César Renduels Menendez de Llano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Donatella Della Porta, Institute of Human and Social sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here's what history tells us about today.
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Carin Runciman, University of Johannesburg
Protests in South Africa are about more than just service delivery, they reflect a wider crisis in the country's post-apartheid democracy.
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Arts + Culture
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Michael Beverland, RMIT University
When Malcolm Turnbull released his innovation agenda, the arts were missing. But Australia's fashion industry is a true innovator, comparable to French and Italian fashion houses. It's time to recognise this at home.
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