Hassan Rouhani (Persian: حسن روحانی; [note 1] born Hassan Fereydoun, [note 2] 12 November 1948) [7] [8] is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), [9] academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric.

Hassan Rouhani (born November 12, 1948, Sorkheh, Iran) is a centrist Iranian politician and cleric who served as president of Iran (2013–21) and is known for his role in negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), that limited Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran’s former moderate President Hassan Rouhani says he has been disqualified from running for reelection to the country’s influential Assembly of Experts, late Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, calling it a move to limit the people’s participation in elections, official state media reported.

Jun 19, 2021 · Rouhani, originally named Fereidoun after a king in Persian mythology, was born in 1948 in Sorkheh, a county in Iran’s north-central Semnan province, his family home for generations.

Dec 12, 2024 · Hassan Rouhani, born Hassan Fereydoun on November 12, 1948, in Sorkheh, Semnan Province, Iran, is a prominent Iranian politician and cleric who served as the seventh President of Iran from 2013 to 2021.

May 20, 2017 · For a president who began his first term in the centre of the Islamic political spectrum, Hassan Fereydoun Rouhani, 68, has now moved firmly to the left, placing himself with the reformists.

Jul 10, 2013 · View CNN’s Fast Facts on Hassan Rouhani and learn more about the former Iranian president.

Aug 2, 2021 · Rouhani was elected to a second term in 2017 by a comfortable margin, but his second term was fraught with challenges in both domestic and foreign policy. At home, protests erupted in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city, in December 2017 and spread to other towns.

Rouhani (Persian: روحانی, means "spiritual" and "cleric"), also transliterated as Rowhani and Rohani, is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Freddy Rouhani (b. 1963 or 1964), Iranian-American professional poker player; Fuad Rouhani, former Secretary-General of OPEC; Gholamreza Rouhani, Iranian poet

Jan 24, 2024 · Rouhani, the man who was believed to be one of the candidates for succession as Supreme Leader is the last one to be jettisoned out of what many see as Khamenei's sinking ship. President Rouhani with his well-known foreign minister Javad Zarif in 2020