Ebrahim Yazdi, founder of the Freedom Movement of Iran and ex-foreign minister London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ebrahim Yazdi served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Iran in the short-lived government of Mehdi Bazargan in the immediate aftermath of the 1979 revolution.As such, he found himself close to the center of the storm that followed the […]
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Iranian official speaks out against extremism
The head of Iran’s Expediency Council has once again attacked extremism in politics, emphasizing that the country must maintain a positive interaction with the world . Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani told a group of academics in a meeting on Sunday July 21: “We cannot continue being cross with the world… and extremism has always restrained […]