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Why Iran is making surprising overtures to America

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Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters Subscribe to The Economist Unlock unlimited access to all our award-winning journalism, subscriber-only podcasts and newsletters Your browser does not support the element. I t is barely five months since America broke off negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme and joined Israel in a lopsided 12-day bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic. Its air defences were pulverised, its top generals killed, its nuclear sites buried. The injured regime’s natural response might have been to lick its wounds and curse the two Satans, great and little. Yet its foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, is signalling just the opposite. That Mr Araghchi invited The Economist to Tehran for an interview was surprising enough. That he conducted the interview in English, against the advice of his media team, was even more unusual. That he agreed to speak to a correspondent whom the Iranian authorit

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