Hardliners Gather in Tehran to Protest Nuclear Negotiations

As the deadline for final nuclear negotiations approached, opponents gathered at Tehran’s Art Seminary to voice their outrage over plans to reduce Iran’s nuclear capability. MP Mahi Olddin Haeri Shirazi opened the “Red Line” conference with a speech railing against an “ornamental nuclear industry”—an industry only in name and without scope for development—which he and others see as a likely outcome of Vienna discussions, which end on July 20