Broadcast 18 January on Iranian state satellite TV (IRINN)

Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, is also chairman of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. He succeeds Ali Ardeshir Larijani, who resigned last October. Jalili is much more in the mold of President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad as a religious hard-liner. He is the author of a 1996 book in Persian on the Prophet Muhammad's foreign policy, in which he described in detail and with much approval the prophet's political tactics and strategies, and his stated objective of attaining eventual Muslim world domination.