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From Our Own Correspondent: Iran's Internal Rivalries

Iran's Internal Rivalries

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A leaked recording shakes Iran; Turkey, the US and Armenia; St Vincent; Chile and Syria

A leaked recording galvanises Iran; Turkey, the US and Armenia; St Vincent's volcano; vaccine impatience in Chile; the story of an American boy who survived years in IS territory.

A leaked recording of Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, which meant for the archive of a state-sponsored think-tank, has found its way to the media. Jeremy Bowen explains what it revealed about how the country really works.
President Biden has issued an official statement that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks from 1915 onwards was a “genocide” - a term that's always enraged many Turks. Mr Biden’s statement was welcomed in Armenia and by the Armenian diaspora, but roundly rejected by Turkey’s President Erdogan. Orla Guerin reports on the impact of the White House’s verdict on history.
It has been three weeks since the volcano in St Vincent, La Soufriere, erupted. Ash rained down on the northern part of the Caribbean island; more than a tenth of its people had to to shelter elsewhere and most crops have been ruined. Will Grant reached the red zone and saw how much needs to be rebuilt. 
 Chile has had one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollouts, with over 40% cent of its people having had at least one jab. But infection rates haven’t fallen as rapidly as was hoped. Some experts say the country’s experience is proof vaccination alone can’t keep whole populations free of Covid. Jane Chambers detects some disillusion in Santiago.
The self-declared Islamic State attracted around 40,000 foreign fighters to its territory, and many brought wives and children with them. Josh Baker spent years following the story of one American woman who travelled to Syria with her husband, taking her young son, Matthew, too. The boy survived more than two and a half years there and is now back in the US. Tracking him down took Josh to several unexpected places along the way.

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(Image: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Credit: Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters)

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