Tehran, YJC. Some news sources say that Morteza Sarmadi is likely to replace Abbas Araqchi as the Foreign Ministry Spokesman.
News
sources speculate that the former Iranian nuclear and veteran diplomat negotiator Morteza Sarmadi is
going to replace Abbas Araqchi as the Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Prior
to this, speculations rather inclined to assign that Sarmad asi first Spokesman for the
FM will be in the position of the minister’s vice
chancellor.
For
a time the former General Director of the News Office of the Foreign Ministry
Marzieh Afkham was also considered a hypothetical choice for the position.
Sources
say that Afkham is likely to replace Ramin Mehmanparast in the Public Diplomacy
and Press Office.
Some
speculations also place the Iranian Ambassador to France Ali Ahani as the
future Iranian Deputy in EU and US affairs, and the country’s Ambassador to
China Mehdi Safari as the next Asia-Pacific Deputy.
Some
other say that the former spokesman Mohammadali Hosseini will become the EU and
US deputy.
These
speculations come at a time when no official source in the Foreign Ministry has
made a statement in this regard.