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Tony Leon | Are Pandor's Iran comments just ignorance, indifference or wilful blindness?

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Naledi Pandor’s US visit was timed to coincide with the US House of Representatives vote last week. (Lefty Shivambu / Gallo Images)
Naledi Pandor’s US visit was timed to coincide with the US House of Representatives vote last week. (Lefty Shivambu / Gallo Images)

International Relations minister had a smug and evasive answer when questioned in Washington on whether Iran was an "authoritarian regime", writes Tony Leon.

US President Ronald Reagan is attributed as once wisely noting that: "Politics is simple yet hard to do."

Even more so in the international arena, as South Africa's contortions in the United States on the bilateral relationship revealed. Last week, International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor was in the news for two apparently related reasons.

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