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Zarif: some in Iran don’t want sanctions to end

Iran’s foreign minister has accused groups inside and outside the country of opposing a nuclear deal.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the session 'The Geopolitical Outlook' in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos January 23, 2015. More than 1,500 business leaders and 40 heads of state or government attend the Jan. 21-24 meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to network and discuss big themes, from the price of oil to the future of the Internet. This year they are meeting in the midst of upheaval, with security forces on heightened alert after attacks in Paris, the European Centr
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Iran’s foreign minister and top nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused unnamed parties in Iran of not wanting to see the international sanctions against the country end. 

Zarif is in Nairobi meeting with Iranian businessmen to expand Iran's economic ties in Africa. At the working breakfast, Zarif said, “At the Foreign Ministry and other levels of government, there is special attention paid and specific mechanisms toward cooperation with Africa.” He said that the administration takes strengthening economic, health and scientific ties with Africa “deeply and seriously.”

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