Inside Global Diplomacy: RT. Honourable Baroness Catherine Ashton
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The Number One Driver for the Iranians Was Their Own Security
When we were negotiating with President Rouhani's regime, which is when Foreign Minister Zarif was leading for the Iran team, the thing that struck me most was that this government had come in on the promise of resolving some of the economic challenges. And so the motivation in a sense to get on with the agreement was in my view anyway, at least in part because of the need to fulfil that promise for the economy. There was a question I think that was always in our mind, was did the Iranians believe that they were more secure or less secure with a nuclear weapon? Now in my view there's no question that security in the region does not include Iran having a nuclear weapon for anyone. But
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