Hassan Rouhani

He was born Hassan Fereydoon on 12 November 1948 in Sorkheh, Iran. He later changed his name to Hassan Rouhani (Rouhani meaning "spiritual" or "cleric"). He has held many political posts in Iran following the Islamic Revolution. Including being a member of the Iranian Parliament from 1980 to 2000, being Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005, which is responsible for the country's nuclear matters. And most recently he was elected in June 2013 to be Iran's seventh and current President of Iran and was sworn in on 3 August 2013 succeeding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Hassan Rouhani is considered to be politically moderate and a centrist politician in comparison to his predecessor Ahmadinejad, and has promised to ease pressure on the population of Iran and to release political prisoners, to loosen up the dress codes. To fix the economy and most importantly "open up" to the world and to ease tensions with the West, to improve relations and to remove sanctions imposed on Iran by the International community due to their nuclear program.