Former President Hassan Rouhani was the architect of detente with the West which might have brought Iran out of isolation, yet two American presidents thwarted his attempts Opinion | Massoumehtorfeh
of Iran’s Green Movement in 2009 as well as the nationwide protests of 2019 are all well-documented. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council for over fifteen years and serving in all power centres. But he had far broader education and experience and, crucially, was the architect of a detente with the West which might have brought Iran out of isolation.
At the time the reform leader, Mohammad Khatami, was the president, advocating for the “dialogue of civilisations”. But Bush’s speech weakened the fledgling reformists movement.
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