Having got the nuclear deal he desperately wanted, Hassan Rouhani (right) is now suffering the backlash. At a time when Iran's moderate president is courting foreign investment-he will do so on a trip to France and Italy from November 14th (though he will skip a state banquet because the French insist on serving wine)-a series of arrests back home have embarrassed him. These would be less damaging if they were not so flagrantly at odds with Mr Rouhani's efforts to change Iran's image after a decade of international estrangement.
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