2025-12-03
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Visit Tehran, as the Economist just did,
and you might expect to find Iran's rulers huddled defensively.
It has been a brutal year for an unloved regime, a 12-day bombing campaign in June,
saw Israel aided by American B2s pummel the country's nuclear sites.
Iran's homegrown uranium enrichment program remains under rubble.
Israeli strikes killed many senior military men and nuclear physicists.
Walk around the city and scars from those attacks are still visible.
Plucks commemorate the dead.
And yet Tehran's leaders sound eager to open up to the world.
In an interview, Abbas Arakchi, the Foreign Minister,
called for talks to resume with America's envoy Steve Witkoff.
He claims negotiations over peaceful uranium enrichment were about to bear fruit just before the missiles flew.
A deal could include a proposal for outsiders,
even Americans, to oversee peaceful enrichment on Iranian soil.
On a visit to Washington,