Mr. Jin Liangxiang is a research fellow at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. His current research fields are Middle East politics and international relations.
The trilateral coordination among China, EU and the U.S. within the framework of the P5+1 mechanism is a major part of the global effort to deal with the Iranian nuclear issue.
On August 5, 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in to his second term as Iran's President by the Majlis, but the country's post-election political troubles have not ended. The fierce competition between candidates and the post-election political tensions reflect a deep-rooted social and political crisis. Electoral fraud cannot fully explain reformists' defeat. On the contrary, the large margin by which conservative radicals won the election was to a large extent due to institutional reasons.
News about Iran's presidential election has dominated the western media in recent days. An election in a regional power has rarely aroused such attention. But the coverage has been more extensive than enlightening.