Time now for our regular Tuesday slot the Global Perspective, today's destination is the country of Iran, an Islamic republic between the Caspian Sea in north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in south. The country was formerly known as Persia. Iran is bordered by Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and clerics assumed political control under supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
GUEST: Ebrahim Deen, who is a researcher at the Afro-Middle East Centre, a research institute based in Johannesburg.