Iran’s former nuclear chief makes call for ‘less emotion’

Hassan Rowhani, Iran’s former top security official, has called for “more balance . . . more reason, and less emotion” in Tehran’s approach to the nuclear crisis.

His remarks, reported yesterday by the official ISNA news agency, were unusually direct in advocating negotiations with the west and in criticising Iran’s policy since the fundamentalist Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad won last June’s presidential election. Such candour reflects concern among pragmatic conservatives as the UN Security Council’s April 28 deadline approaches for Iran to suspend all nuclear activities.

FT