On April 30, 2012, Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, visited the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS). In this informal encounter, he shared his views with the Institute’s resident and visiting fellows as well as a number of Ph.D. and postgraduate students from different universities in Tehran. The chair of this meeting was Dr. Kayhan Barzegar, the director of the IMESS.