Farahmand Alipour

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Deal in Geneva, Hope in Tehran

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—After more than six years of tough talks between Iran and the P5+1 about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on November 24 that Tehran and the world powers had finally clinched a deal. This news was warmly received

Iran’s Ex-FM on Assad, the US and Israel

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ebrahim Yazdi served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Iran in the short-lived government of Mehdi Bazargan in the immediate aftermath of the 1979 revolution. As such, he found himself close to the center of the storm that followed the capture of the American e