“We have intelligence that the Zionist regime has taken the foreign policy of the US hostage,” Amir-Abdollahian charged during a public interview he gave Fareed Zakaria of CNN at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “If the American side will decide realistically, then the deal is at hand.” Amir-Abdollahian added that this is why Israel had come up with false stories about his country.
He blamed Israel for over-dramatizing the US decision, leaked to Politico this week, to keep Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on its Foreign Terror Organizations list.
The story was publicly confirmed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who said US President Joe Biden had informed him of the decision last month.
Israel has made it seem as if retaining the IRGC on that list is significant for the future of the Iran talks, but this is not so, Amir-Abdollahian explained. READ MORE
