Andrew Gilligan

Washington must talk to Tehran

Andrew Gilligan says that this time we would all benefit if America took the diplomatic lead

issue 21 January 2006

Last November the Iranian people were privileged to watch perhaps the year’s most bizarre presidential home video, in which the new President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, described how a divine glow of light had played around him as he delivered his first address to the United Nations. ‘I felt it,’ the President recalled.

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