I was pleasantly surprised to see an Associated Press photo on the BBC website this morning showing a smiling Ali Larijni, Iran’s pragmatic but now fired nuclear negotiator, chatting to Javier Solana in Rome while his hardline replacemant, Saeed Jalili, stood by looking like something he just ate was disagreed with him. I can’t help wondering if the story represents a real issue in the Iranian nuclear problem, or if the western media are building it up out of wishful thinking. It is certainly going to make work for my International Organisations class who will be working on non-proliferation later this semester. Continue reading Ahmadinajad 1, Pragmatists 2?