Tag: Alan Eyre

U.S. State Department’s Spokesman Makes Gesture Toward Iranian Opposition

  The U.S. State Department’s Persian-language spokesman Alan Eyre has sent condolences via Facebook over the death of one of the sisters of opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi. In a message in Persian posted with a picture of Karrubi, Eyre writes that it was with “with deepest regret” that he found out about the death of […]

Iranian Daily Publishes Interview With State Department Official

  On September 30, the reformist “Shargh” daily published an interview with the U.S. State Department’s Persian spokesman, Alan Eyre, in which he was asked about the historic telephone conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rohani, and the dispute over Iran’s nuclear activities. “Shargh” posted the interview together with a […]