Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in as Iran's eighth president on Thursday. Faced with a troubled economy at home and political upheavals abroad, Raisi is expected to adopt "a hard line" approach and empower lower-income people in Iran.

Will Raisi restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)? How will he respond to the U.S. sanctions that have troubled the Iranian economy for three years?

To find out more, we've invited He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Josef Gregory Mahoney, Professor of Politics of East China Normal; and Ghanbar Naderi, Freelance Journalist and Political Commentator.