EghtesadOnline: Italy’s premier-designate Paolo Gentiloni may end up just keeping the seat warm for his former boss, Matteo Renzi.

EghtesadOnline: Many of Italy’s business leaders have decided who should be the country’s next prime minister -- the current one.

EghtesadOnline: Paolo Gentiloni has plenty of experience of international diplomacy but his main challenges, if he succeeds in becoming prime minister, will be Italy’s weak economy and -- most urgently of all -- its troubled banks.

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni in a telephone conversation on Monday evening discussed bilateral ties and regional developments.