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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

The patience and the poker face: Iran’s wily diplomat set to face the US in nuclear talks

Composite image of Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, left,  and White House special envoy Steve Witkoff
Who will blink first? Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, left, and White House special envoy Steve Witkoff. Composite: AP

If the US and Iran are to avoid a regional war, both sides need to start to make concessions at talks in Geneva on Tuesday, and also to accommodate one another’s very different bargaining styles.

The Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, steeped in almost 15 years of Iranian nuclear talks, is a near lifelong diplomat who has written a book on the art of negotiations that reveals the secrets of the Iranian diplomatic trade – the feints, the patience, the poker faces.

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