Iran’s Minister of Culture: “We Can, but We Don’t Want to Build the Nuclear Bomb”

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Abbas Saleh Shariati (Mashad, Iran, 61) is one of the few Iranian leaders to be seen these days by European capitals. Newly arrived from Mondiacult, the Unesco Cultural Policy Forum held in Barcelona, Iran’s Culture Minister emphasizes that Europe had no reason to resume — as it has just done — sanctions on his country that were in force until 2015 on suspicion that Tehran intended to manufacture the nuclear bomb.