Iran’s ‚moderates‘ and the Holocaust – Iran’s foreign minister offers an unconvincing disavowal of the regime’s hate speech. | Washington Post

Iran’s ‚moderates‘ and the Holocaust – Iran’s foreign minister offers an unconvincing disavowal of the regime’s hate speech. | Washington Post

AT THE heart of the Obama administration’s diplomatic engagement with Iran is the notion that the regime is divided among hard-liners who foment its terrorism and regional aggression and more moderate forces who are open to cooperation with the West. The embodiment of the latter is said to be Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, an English-speaking favorite of many Western journalists and, even more so, Secretary of State John F. Kerry.