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The dark suit over a light gray shirt. The elegant shoes. The determined gaze. The choice – common among the Iranian elites – not to use English, although I speak it very well. Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Tehran’s foreign minister, arrives in Rome for two days full of talks between the Farnesina and the Vatican. Ukraine, nuclear dossier and Syria on the agenda of a diplomat close to the Revolutionary Guards, unlike his predecessor Javad Zarif, and therefore for years in charge of the hottest dossiers in Tehran.