Chemical Weapons And Claims of Hypocrisy: Iran’s Facebook Foreign Minister Tackles Syria
Iran’s new foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has published a brief, stinging missive castigating the prospect of American intervention in Syria. His statement underscores Iran’s residual bitterness over its own experience with chemical weapons and its leadership’s indignation over what it sees as the profoundly destabilizing application of American power and international law to the Middle East. However, Zarif and the rest of the Iranian leadership need to move beyond reiterating their government’s grievances and, for once, to invest whatever moral righteousness and strategic influence Tehran may be able to claim in promoting a peaceful and humane outcome in Syria and elsewhere across the region. <br />
Chemical Weapons And Claims of Hypocrisy: Iran's Facebook Foreign Minister Tackles Syria. Suzanne Maloney Friday, August 30, 2013. Markaz · Facebook ...