Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered an investigation April 27 into the leak of an audiotape containing containing confidential statements by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Government spokesman Ali Rabiee said Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has been assigned with identifying those behind the leak, which he said is being treated as a "conspiracy against national security."
Iranian officials have said the audio was part of an oral history project meant to be archived at the presidential office as a confidential file.
