Tehran was the scene of fresh diplomatic maneuvering this week as the Foreign Ministry�s Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) sponsored an anti-terrorism conference.
The two-day�conference, dubbed The World Against Violence & Extremism, was attended Dec. 9-10�by representatives of more than 40 countries.

Tehran's decision to hold the WAVE conference follows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's proposal of The World against Violence and Extremism (aka�WAVE) initiative in his first address to the UN General Assembly in September 2013.

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved Rouhani's WAVE�proposal�on Dec. 18, 2013.

This article was written by Meysam Bizar for Al-Monitor on December 12th, 2014. Maysam Bizar is a freelance journalist and translator in Iran who focuses�on Iran's foreign policy and nuclear program. He has worked for and contributes to�various media outlets in Iran . On Twitter:�@m_bizar

 

 

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