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The ambassadors who were removed had by and large been based in Europe, where they had spent their time cultivating relationships and generally presenting an image of Iran as coherent and amenable, an approach that was viewed with suspicion by the new team in Tehran.
Ansari (Iran under Ahmadinejad: 73)
References
Ansari, Ali M., Iran under Ahmadinejad: Iran under Ahmadinejad: the politics of confrontation, Adelphi paper 393, Routledge, 2007, 104. |