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The Zarif Card: Why Nobody Is Buying Tehran’s Old “Reformist” Trick This Time

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Newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) speaks as former foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif (L) stands next to him after the presidential election at the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Khomeini in southern Tehran. © Rouzbeh Fouladi/ZUMA Press Wire

Fearing Europe’s shift to the right and a second Trump term, Tehran has dusted off its reformist credentials — with president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian and veteran diplomat Mohammed Javad Zarif — to show the West it is willing to talk. But this ploy will not work again.

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Milei And The Pope: What This Argentine Odd Couple Tells Us About Capitalism Today

Milei And The Pope: What This Argentine Odd Couple Tells Us About Capitalism Today
Pope Francis receives Argentina's President Javier Milei during an audience at the Vatican Vatican Media/ZUMA

Argentina’s rabidly privatizing president, Javier Milei, had a curiously warm meeting with “socialist” and fellow Argentine Pope Francis. As both have an emotive side and abhor the technocratic élites, it could even open the door to an unlikely entente, and even a long-awaited papal visit.

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Spain, A Perfect Political Graveyard Of Old Left And Right

Poster of the PSOE ripped off on a wall in Madrid, Spain.
Torn posters of the PSOE for the May 28 elections, in Madrid, Spain. Eduardo Parra/ZUMA

If the Left is increasingly fighting to preserve hard-won social victories, and the Right wants change, what does the traditional Left-Right division mean anymore?

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