Swiss envoy calls Iran ‘pole of stability’ in Mideast

27 August 2015, 7:01 pm

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Switzerland’s ambassador to Iran says the Islamic Republic is a “pole of stability” in the Middle East, and calls on companies to make the most of a market about to re-open after years of sanctions, Reuters reports.

“Iran seems still for a lot of people to be bearded, elderly gentlemen with turbans. You see them, but you see not a lot of them, especially when you’re dealing with business,” Ambassador Giulio Haas tells a conference of some 500 Swiss business people in Zurich, according to Reuters.

Haas says his close to two years in Tehran have made him certain that the West is about change its opinion of Iran as an aggressor.

“Iran at the moment is most probably the pole of stability in a very, very unsafe region,” he says.