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Business Matters: Iran Vows to "Never Accept Isolation"

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Iran Vows to "Never Accept Isolation"

04/08/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Iran Vows to "Never Accept Isolation"

Newly elected president Rouhani promises to open Iran up to the world despite sanctions

Iran's newly re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, warns the US that Iran will not accept "malicious attempts to keep them from constructive and effective engagement with the world". We speak to the Guardian newspaper's Saeed Kamali Dehghan about the impact of US sanctions on Iran.

Workers at a Nissan car factory in Canton, Mississippi are voting on the right to form a union. The United Auto Workers union has called it one of the nastiest anti-union fights in American history. Michelle Fleury reports on how this has led to passionate arguments on both sides.

What impact is mass tourism having on historical cities? And how to resolve the conflict between preserving cultural heritage and profiting from it? Andy Pag reports from Venice in Italy, where the local authorities are looking at ways to limit the number of tourists entering the city.

And, as China bans Virtual Private Networks, is this evidence that the country's control over the web is tightening? The BBC's John Sudworth reports.

Presenter Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme by Diane Brady, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal writer turned media entrepreneur in New York, and Simon Littlewood, President at the Asia Now Consulting Group, in Singapore.

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