"Carter had a bad character," said Hassan Taherifar who works at a Tehran bazaar outside the former US embassy in Tehran, known locally as the "Den of Spies".

As the U.S. and Iran engage in high-stakes negotiations, NBC News’ Richard Engel visits a bazaar in Tehran, where citizens say they’re hopeful a deal could improve their economic outlook.

the scion of an Isfahan bazaar family who joined Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution as a teenager and fought in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war before embarking on a dazzling diplomatic career. Although there is ...

FILE PHOTO: Iranian people shop at the Tehran Bazaar in Tehran ...