Iraq's Foreign Minister on French Foreign Policy

"Since the fall of the Saddam régime, France's foreign policy has been skeptical, suspicious", says Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari to Le Monde's Cécile Hennion, and "has had more to do with its relationship to the United States than to its relationship with Iraq." He adds that while its overt policies have been almost passive, he wonders whether Paris doesn't have more clout with the country's "insurgents" than it lets know…

In other matters, Laurent Zecchini interviws [sic] Henry Sokolski about Iran, leading the non-proliferation specialist to say that "the European [negotiators] are cynical and are going to fail. … The Europeans prefer to appear as being in control of the situation, rather than stigmatize Iran."