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Not much was new in Zarif’s leaked voice file; but it sounded like a confession before the people.
In the Persian month of Ordibehesht (April-May), Tehran often sees hail and flood-like rains. Last Saturday and Sunday, Tehran saw severe lightning and unstoppable rain. The horizon of 42-year-old republic was also hit by lightnings caused by the leak of an audio interview with foreign minister, Javad Zarif.
In an interview with economist Sayeed Laylaz, Zarif said words that shook the Iranian people. Not because they didn’t know this but because they now heard it from an insider. In the very first days of the revolution, the republic jettisoned patriotism and love of Iran. Instead, Shiite Islam, the Supreme Leader and safeguarding the cause of the regime became, as Iranian clerics like to say, “the most prior of priorities.”