{"id":1467,"date":"2018-05-26T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T07:21:55","slug":"bernard-kushner-minister-of-foreign-and-european-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/quotes\/2018\/05\/bernard-kushner-minister-of-foreign-and-european-affairs\/1467\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Kushner:\u00a0Minister of Foreign and European Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><p>Bernard Kushner: France\u2019s former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChange in Iran will open the way to end extremism, the extremism born in the name of Islam throughout the region. This is not because Islam is a good ground for terrorism, instead they are using Islam as a tool fool for change in b\u00a0Iran, but change Iran is certainly the beginning of a real change for democracy in the whole region.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Kushner: France\u2019s former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs \u201cChange in Iran will open the way to end extremism, the extremism born in the name of Islam throughout the region. 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