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Iran: New Foreign Minister Has a Facebook Page

Written byFarid
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Posted 15 August 2013 12 years ago

Iran's new foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has a Facebook page where he answers questions. He says “my children and I update this page.” The page has more than 10,000 likes. Facebook is filtered in Iran but used by all presidential candidates.

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