And, you know, one of the things that I'm always battling - and I've only been on the national stage for a couple of years now - is that tendency to edit yourself so much that, at a certain point, you stop sounding like a regular person and you start taking on, you know, the persona of, you know, those bad politicians in TV movies...

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Until recently the Iranians had played hard to get, sometimes sounding keen to talk but at other times saying brusquely that they saw no point.

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