Iran wants to bring its nuclear deal with world powers “back on track” after the US unilateral withdrawal, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said on Thursday, a day after Tehran said it was scaling back curbs to its nuclear program. “Our goal is to strengthen the JCPOA (the acronym for the […]
Hassan Rouhani
Slips of the tongue
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” All people commit sins and make mistakes. God forgives them, and people are acting in a godlike (divine) way when they forgive.” When the young Alexander Pope famously wrote these lines in a didactic poem entitled An Essay on Criticism as far back as the 17th century, he […]
Our diplomatic priorities
Exactly one day ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s scheduled visit to Tehran, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has issued a diplomatic rebuke to his hosts in the form of a protest launched over Iran’s alleged lack of action against elements suspected of the Ormara massacre of April 18. The terrorists are seen as having […]