Former envoys warn against policies including supply of drones to Russia and failure to revive nuclear deal
Senior former Iranian diplomats are expressing open criticism of their government, warning that by failing to revive the nuclear deal andin Ukraine, the country risks becoming isolated, its economy weakened and the protest movement emboldened.
In a front-page interview with the Etemaad newspaper, he said he feared Iran had thrown away “a golden opportunity” to revive the nuclear deal and suggested the country had abandoned its neutrality in, leaving Tehran exposed to American claims of war crimes by supplying drones for use against Ukrainian civilians.
Sadr in his Etemaad interview said he feared it was Iranian negotiators that prevented a deal from being reached to revive the nuclear agreement, adding he had warned the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, personally that if the issues blocking the deal were left unresolved, “all the economic pressures would be on his government’s shoulders”.
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