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Arab News @arabnews · 5h
#OPINION: Regardless of the reasons for the leaking of #Zarif’s interview, it has once again exposed many points that reveal the true evil nature of the ruling regime in #Iran and its regional objectives, writes @mohalsulami.
Zarif reveals true face of Iranian regime
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 Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to undermine President Hassan Rouhani’s government for wholly domestic reasons — the damage has been done, with its impact going far beyond what anybody could have imagined. In response to the leak, Iran’s judiciary has banned 15 individuals from traveling. Meanwhile, Rouhani has appointed Ali Rabiei to head the Center for Strategic Studies after Hesamodin Ashna, an adviser to the president, resigned following allegations he was behind the leak.
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https://www.arabnews.com/node/1853076
6:28 PM · May 3, 2021
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6:20 PM · May 3, 2021
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