Crucial changes at Iran’s foreign ministry ahead of nuclear talks
Tehran, Iran – Shortly before talks resume in Vienna around restoring Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal, its foreign ministry has made some changes which will well prove critical.
Hardline diplomat Ali Bagheri Kani has been appointed because the new deputy for politics , replacing veteran diplomat Abbas Araghchi, who led six rounds of nuclear talks in Vienna up to late July – when talks stopped to permit Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi to make his administration.
Araghchi, a career diplomat and senior member of the team that negotiated the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) during the tenure of President Hassan Rouhani, is now an adviser to secretary of state Hossein Amirabdollahian, which can mean he has not been fully sidelined
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