Click photo to enlarge  Since Iran signed the interim agreement
last month with world powers, President Hassan Rouhani has been
trying to convince skeptics and hard-liners at home that Iran is
not compromising on key issues of national sovereignty. It's a
task that will become all the more difficult for the moderate
leader as Tehran moves toward a final accord six months from
now.  His televised speech to university students was
interrupted by rival chanting from hard-liners and moderates in
the audience, highlighting the divide in Iranian politics that
the president faces.  "Nuclear technology and uranium enrichment
is our definite right," Rouhani said. "But progress, better
living conditions and welfare for the people is also our
definite right. Breaking and dismantling the architecture of the
ominous and oppressive sanctions is also our definite right."
The strict sanctions regime leveled by Western powers on Iran
over its disputed nuclear program has taken an immense toll on
the nation's economy, and Rou