Geneive Abdo
This article was published in foreignpolicy.com
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in recent days met with dignitaries at the United Nations to generate international support for Iran to engage in talks with the United States and other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council over Iran’s nuclear program. But when Mottaki and other Iranian officials in Tehran have talked recently about restarting talks, they are not referring to the nuclear negotiations the Europeans and the United States are hoping for; rather, they are trying to gain traction on negotiations about the more»
Editor’s Note: Jasim Husain Ali is a member of the Bahraini Parliament and a columnist on GCC political and economic affairs for Gulf News. Insideiran.org interviewed him from Bahrain.
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