Does Iranian President Hassan Rouhani need Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, to supervise and agree to any agreement reached in nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 (United Nations Security Council Permanent Five Members Plus Germany) and the Islamic Republic? In a recent interview Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, certainly suggests that this is the case. Boroujerdi spoke with the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA) on the ongoing nuclear negotiations, broaching a range of topics including the negotiations’ relative secrecy, whether Iran would sign the Additional Protocols, and parliament’s role in the negotiations. Touching on the negotiations’ secrecy Boroujerdi, despite being a hardline […]
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