How Europe is dealing with Iran’s new hardline president
Expectations are low but there will be room for cooperation, particularly if both sides focus on essential interests.
Eldar Mamedov has degrees from the University of Latvia and the Diplomatic School in Madrid, Spain. He has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and as a diplomat in Latvian embassies in Washington D.C. and Madrid. Since 2007, Mamedov has served as a political adviser for the social-democrats in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (EP) and is in charge of the EP delegations for inter-parliamentary relations with Iran, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, and Mashreq.
Expectations are low but there will be room for cooperation, particularly if both sides focus on essential interests.
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