Iran on Tuesday named a hardline senior diplomat Ali Bagheri Kani to replace Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who served as Iran’s chief negotiator in talks on Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Reuters reported, citing Iranian state media.
Bagheri, who was named deputy foreign minister for political affairs, had been a senior negotiator in nuclear talks between Iran and the West under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2007 to 2013, and is a relative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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