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Zarif also blames Soleimani for being in cahoots with Russia, which “put all its weight” behind sabotaging the nuclear deal with the U.S. and world powers, as well as allowing Russian fighter jets to fly over Iran for Syrian bombing raids, letting Russia use Iranian airliners to move military personnel and equipment, and deploying Iranian soldiers on the ground in Syria.
The foreign minister said that he is often left in the dark about policies and that the IRGC and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei are the ones dictating Iran’s position on the nuclear negotiations.
Saudi Broadcaster Leaks Context Free Quotes From Iran s Foreign Minister Talk - Should It Be Trusted?
A rather weird leak from Iran appeared yesterday. But even weirder is the reporting about it. From the
New York Times:
Javad Zarif of course did not say what the headline claims:
In a leaked audiotape that offers a glimpse into the behind-the scenes power struggles of Iranian leaders, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Revolutionary Guards Corps call the shots, overruling many government decisions and ignoring advice.
In one extraordinary moment on the tape that surfaced Sunday, Mr. Zarif departed from the reverential official line on Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Guards’ elite Quds Force, the foreign-facing arm of Iran’s security apparatus, who was killed by the United States in January 2020.
Three consequences of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe s new prison sentence
Additional incarceration raises fears that UK-dual nationals are being held as bargaining chips to settle debts and nuclear diplomacy
26 April 2021 • 8:13pm
British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to a further one-year jail term in Iran on Monday
Credit: PA
For long-time followers of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe s five-year incarceration in Iran, her fresh prison sentence was depressingly predictable. So are at least three of its consequences.
First, it will be seen as further confirmation that she and other UK-dual nationals are being held as diplomatic hostages over a decades-old debt Britain has refused to pay.
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