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1 December 2010updated 27 Sep 2015 2:06am

European ambassadors feared Iranian lock-in

WikiLeaks exposes officials’ worries of being trapped at Ahmadinejad’s inauguration.

By Chris Bowles

It appears that tactically thwarting Iran’s nuclear ambitions is not the only concern on the mind of state representatives in managing relations with the Persian nation. A document from the WikiLeaks batch of US cables, dated July 2009, exposes the back-room politics of EU diplomats as they prepared to attend the inauguration of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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