Smiling barbarians not planning for peace
The image of the invariably smiling Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif purring at the side of world leaders, together with the election of the so-called “reformist” president, Hassan Rouhani in 2013, have cultivated an image of the Iranian regime as modern, civilized, reasonable and a welcome antidote to the barbarism of IS and other Sunni jihadists. But a closer examination of the regime’s regional designs and behaviour reveals a dangerous malevolence. Under President Rou