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Aug. 05, 2014 | 12:23 AM How Iran has moved on a nuclear deal Gareth Smyth| The Daily Star A decade ago, Ali Larijani said that Iran’s nuclear negotiators had “swapped a pearl for a candy” in agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment for the duration of talks with the European Union in return for assurances over economic cooperation. Larijani was at the time an adviser to the supreme leader, or “rahbar,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his phrase hit home in Iran. Indeed it helped stymie the nascent presidential election campaign of one Hassan Rouhani, then heading the negotiation team as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. The nuclear issue hardly dominated the subsequent 2005 election, which hinged on the economy, although the winner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, trumpeted Iran’s nuclear “rights.” Most Iranians saw no reason why the country should not enjoy nuclear technology and rejected the Europeans’ notion that it should continue to suspend enrichment. Read more: dailystar.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2014/Aug-05/266061-how-iran-has-moved-on-a-nuclear-deal.ashx#ixzz39Z5R8JUa (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: dailystar.lb)
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:54:06 +0000

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