Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry met Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, with Zarif warning Kerry that if a deal isn’t reached soon regarding his government’s renegade nuclear program it could discredit relative moderates within the clerical regime such as President Hassan Rouhani. Analysts called the warning an indication of Washington’s changed priorities regarding Iran, from stopping its quest for atomic weapons to coopting the Islamic Republic in the regional struggle with radical Sunni Moslem groups like the al-Qaida and the Islamic State (IS) terror militia. European Union high representative Federica Mogherini made a more explicit admission of this shift in her remarks to the media following her own meetings with Zarif. Israeli officials reacted with alarm to the reports. Read More
