Iran's chief nuclear negotiator receives hero's welcome in Tehran

[Surya Gayatri]

Source: The Guardian

Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has returned to Tehran to a hero’s welcome as thousands of people desperate for an end to international sanctions greeted him at the airport after Thursday’s historic breakthrough in the Lausanne nuclear talks.


Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is mobbed by well-wishers in Tehran. Photograph: EPA

A crowd gathered at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on Friday morning as Zarif, the country’s chief nuclear negotiator, and his team arrived from Switzerland, where they agreed a framework deal that provides the basis for a more comprehensive nuclear agreement. Iranians hope the deal will end years of international isolation and economic hardship – and avert the threat of war.

Under the tentative agreement, restrictions will be placed on Iran’s enrichment of uranium so that it is unable to use the material in nuclear weapons. In return, the US and EU will terminate all nuclear-related economic sanctions on Iran once the UN nuclear agency confirms that Iran has complied.

On Thursday night, jubilant Iranians took to the streets within hours of the news breaking in Lausanne. Drivers in Tehran honked their car horns even after midnight as men and women waved flags and showed victory signs from open windows. In an unprecedented move, Iran’s national TV also broadcast Obama’s Thursday speech on the agreement live.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/03/iran-nuclear-mohammad-javad-zarif

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Sea change, 180° turn about, modern revolution, world turned inside out...

How many of you remember the scenes from the Iran hostage crisis back in 1979-1981?







How's that for a peaceful revolution?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Meanwhile, Republicans pelt Obama with rocks and bottles.

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Sad commentary...'a stranger in his own land'...

[steve2470]

2. Notice how light his security is ?

In this country, John Kerry could not do that, I'm convinced.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Not in your dreams...sad, sad. Who's the 'axis of evil' again?

[karynnj]

7. My guess is you really can't tell how much security he has from the photo

There are photos of Kerry - and even Obama - walking without a lot of obvious protection. I assume that there actually is a lot. With Obama (and possibly Kerry), I assume that anyone in the immediate vicinity was checked out thoroughly,

[sadoldgirl]

5. I hope with all my heart that

this deal will be concluded in July.

To give peace a chance requires a lot more
courage than to threaten with war!

I congratulate all participants in this effort!
This is truly a "change I can live with".

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Let us meditate on an outcome beneficial to all. Send Kerry all of our

positive energy.

[cosmicone]

8. Despite all the repuke bravado

America really has no appetite for war left.

Repukes are not protesting peace ... they just don't want to let a (half) black POTUS to have any credit or any accomplishments.

Also, all the talk about Iran having a nuke doesn't bother anyone in America -- Iran has no delivery system to reach the US with a bomb anyway and they risk far far more (i.e. annihilation of their country) if they even tried to play with a nuke.

All the republican BS is to fool the Jewish electorate (which largely votes democratic) into believing that repukes are the real champions of Israel. (At least until rapture commeth anyway)

[Surya Gayatri]

9. '...no appetite for war left.' You'd think so after

multiple military misadventures since WWII.