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Zarif reveals true face of Iranian regime
Dr. Mohammed Al-Sulami
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (AP)
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The London-based Persian-language satellite news channel Iran International last week released an audio recording of an interview conducted in March by Saeed Laylaz, an Iranian economic researcher close to the government, with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The three-hour recording contained extremely sensitive information, most of which supported what was already known, given that the source of the information is a senior Iranian government official who is, theoretically, the architect of Iranian diplomacy.
Regardless of who was behind the leaked recording and the objectives behind its release whether it was intended to polish the image of the so-called moderate faction in Iran and highlight the massive pressures it faces from the hard-line fundamentalist, so-called “revolutionary” faction, or an attempt by the Islamic Revo
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during talks in Moscow, Russia, January 26, 2021. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has found himself under fire after an interview leaked to the press in which he decries the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Iran’s foreign policy.
Though Zarif has sought to downplay the remarks which were leaked ahead of the June presidential elections in Iran, and as Tehran and world powers discuss ways to revive the 2015 nuclear accord amid a furious reaction from conservative figures and media outlets speculation still swirls around who leaked the three-hour segment.
Tehran, Iran – Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has publicly reprimanded the Iranian diplomat for his comments on power struggles in a controversial audio tape leaked last week.
Khamenei said in a televised speech on Sunday that he was “surprised and sorry” to hear Mohammad Javad Zarif’s late comments General Qassem Soleimanipower and influence, without directly appointing the diplomat.
“Some of these comments are a repetition of our enemy’s enemy speeches, a repetition of American words,” he said, noting that the anti-Iranian media released the tape.
He spent more than three hours on a seven-hour secretive government oral history project with the Saudi-funded Iran International channel based in London.