By Seyed Hossein Mousavian and Mohammad Ali Shabani. This article was first published on New York Times. IF there are any two words in Persian that President Obama should learn, they are “maslahat” and “aberu.” Maslahat is often translated as expediency, or self-interest. Aberu means face — as in, saving face. In the nearly 34 […]
Author Archives: Seyed Hossein Mousavian and Mohammad Ali Shabani
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former spokesman for Iran’s nuclear negotiators, is a research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and the author of “The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir.”
Mohammad Ali Shabani is a doctoral candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
