Jeffrey Goldberg, Columnist

Davos, the Iranian Chutzpah Festival

Perhaps it’s the altitude. Maybe it's the rich food -- or the rich people. Or maybe the word for chutzpah in Farsi is “Davos.”
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Perhaps it's the altitude. Maybe it's the rich food -- or the rich people. Or maybe the word for chutzpah in Farsi is "Davos."

For whatever reason, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have been putting on a brass-neck display this week in Switzerland -- and Rouhani's speech today at the World Economic Forum was no exception.