A claim in response to Leilaz’s statement about Zarif’s audio file
Saeed Agenji, a journalist residing in Finland, responded to Saeed Leilaz’s claim that the release of Zarif’s audio file was intended to send a positive signal to the United States, by asserting that the main goal was to undermine the government and Zarif.
Mr. Agenji wrote on the social network X that since I was the first person to disclose and publish Zarif’s audio file, I know the path of revealing the confidential file and I can definitively say that Saeed Leilaz’s statements are false.
The Rouhani government and Zarif had no role in the release of the audio file. The file was transferred to visual media with the primary aim of undermining the government and Zarif, and the reason I published it before everyone else was to thwart the plans they had for that file, and that’s exactly what happened. Mr. Leilaz either doesn’t know or is deliberately saying something false.
Mr. Leilaz had said in an interview with Shargh newspaper that the story of the release of that several-hour interview file with Mohammad Javad Zarif, without saying who did what, had one of its goals and aspects of the disclosure aimed at sending a positive signal to the American side. This was so that if the Biden administration wanted to do something to revive the JCPOA, it would be in the months leading up to the end of Rouhani’s government, so that the revival of the JCPOA could help the Rouhani government’s aligned flow to continue its power.