Iran President Talks Nuclear Deal, Courts Foreign Investment

Netanyahu: Iranians Never Changed

The World Economic Forum in Davos has provided Iran’s reformist President Hassan Rohani a chance to expand on his goals of rapprochement with the West, courting foreign investment and talking up replacing the six-month interim nuclear deal with a permanent settlement.

Rohani insisted that Iran has a “serious will” to see the nuclear talks progress to a final settlement, and will resolve any international doubts about the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. The talks on a final deal begin next months.

A lot of companies around the world are lining up to stake business interests in the new Iran, though the Obama Administration continues to warn American companies against trying to do so.

Iran’s rapprochement isn’t sitting well at all with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who insisted that no matter what Rohani says or does, Iran will never really change.

Author: Jason Ditz

Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.