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By Arsalan Shahla, Golnar Motevalli, and Patrick Sykes

August 25, 2021 at 3:00 PM UTC

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Iranian lawmakers approved most of President Ebrahim Raisi’s cabinet, installing an anti-Western conservative as the foreign minister who’ll steer negotiators when talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal resume.

World powers will now be poised for signs of when Tehran plans to return to negotiations critical to ending a standoff with the U.S. that took the two countries close to war and crippled Iran’s oil exports.