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Foreign Ministry’s advisor talks on his new book
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IBNA- The senior advisor of Iranian Mohammad Javad Zarif, , said that his book ‘Reformist Government Diplomacy in the Arab World’ covers memories on his meetings with a variety of presidents, kings and other Arab officials.
In an interview with at the 28th Tehran International Book Fair, Seyyed Mohammad Sadr (PhD), the former Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African affairs in President Khatami’s government, noted that the book is a collection of his memories and an elaboration of his visits and different meetings with Arab officials.
“Since I myself was present at these meetings and indeed was an eyewitness of the events, we can say that the book is a kind of document,” he said.
The veteran politician maintained that his book ‘Reformist Government Diplomacy in the Arab World’ in Persian is a kind of political-historical work and he asked its critics to read and regard the work from this perspective.
When asked if he himself were the critic of the book, what weak points he would attribute to it, Sadr said that there are some errors in the book which have not been edited and this is a weak point.
Sadr also said that the book was penned in the period between August-September 2014 to February-March 2015, “I have also written the book ‘Revolution and Diplomacy’ and I have 20 volumes of books in the form of manuscripts and will publish them in the future,” the veteran Iranian diplomat held.
Already in an interview with the correspondents at TIBF Sadr also said that the best period in the Iranian foreign diplomacy was in Khatami’s reformist government and it was the kind of policy that Imam Khomeini desired.
“Imam Khomeini had a global and comprehensive look and in reformist government, we managed to have very good relations with the world since foreign policy means having relationship with the various nations around the world,” he said.
Sadr also maintained that the Islamic Revolution was a cultural revolution but unfortunately in various periods this cultural aspect was pale. “Imam Khomeini had a global cultural idea and wished to introduce this idea to people around the world, the idea which was based on Islam and was pursuing freedom and independence,” he added.
“This idea could be useful for all the Muslims and the third-world and even non-Islamic countries,” Sadr held.
When asked if he would write a book on the current nuclear negotiations between Iran and 5+1, Sadr smilingly said that he wouldn’t do so as the Iranian negotiators should pen such a book.
The book ‘Revolution and Diplomacy also penned by Seyyed Mohammad Sadr, consists of seven chapters and contains the biography of the author, his education, his campaigns leading to the victory of the Islamic Revolution, his political activities and his position at Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
Seyyed Mohammad Sadr is a significant figure in the reformists’ circle of foreign policy specialists, serving under former president Khatami as Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African affairs, as Khatami’s advisor and as a senior researcher at the Institute for Political and International Studies at Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
Shataw Naseri
Source: IBNA
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