Iran negotiations--"A lot more substantive than expected"

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  1. cpicturetaker

    cpicturetaker New Member

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    I watched everything yesterday (LEGITIMATE news--not FOX) and there seemed to be pretty wide consensus. Certainly areas of question, kinks,
    but these was actually viewed by many I saw yesterday as MUCH MORE than their expectations.

    (Of course the GOP congress might get in and in there and attempt to destroy it).

    The Iran Deal Is a Lot More Substantive Than Expected

    By Joshua Keating
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    European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend the announcement of an agreement on Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 2, 2015.
    Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

    We have a nuclear deal! Or rather, an “agreement on [the] framework for [a] final agreement.” Or “parameters to resolve major issues.” Or perhaps “the outlines of an understanding that would open the path to a final phase of nuclear negotiations.”
    ting

    Joshua Keating is a staff writer at Slate focusing on international affairs.

    Whatever you want to call it, the “plan of action” read aloud today by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was a lot more comprehensive than expected after eight days of fraught talks. As recently as Wednesday, the negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, appeared to be on the verge of collapse, with foreign ministers fleeing the scene. After marathon final negotiating sessions Wednesday night and Thursday, the general assumption was that the “agreement” would amount to only a vaguely face-saving “official press situation,” as Zarif put it earlier Thursday, that would kick the can down the road until the next round of talks this summer....


    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ement_was_more_substantive_than_expected.html
     
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    Actually, I was watching career diplomats, a General and an Admiral (ours), at least 2 or 3 ME experts and a whole bunch of 'watchers' and
    writers about the ME. But I guess they could all be LIBERAL.

    (The idiocy of too much of the American electorate is stupifying. I'll ASSUME all the folks above aren't).
     
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    I flipped over to Fox Noise to see what they were saying.

    Sham Hammity was behaving predictably.
     
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    cpicturetaker New Member

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    I've gotten good at knowing when to CLICK over. They NEVER EVER act out of character. Predictable as you say! I get a big
    kick out of watching the initial tepid rollout of the NEWS story. If it is good for the country and/or the world (or Democrats) and bad news for THEM,
    I watch how long it takes them to gather up their talking points.

    (I probably need to start setting my phone timer and see how long it takes. This one took them ALL NIGHT!)
     
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    You say that for everything which makes you look stupid, as if the media is never right.
     
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    Yes, you also undoubtedly noticed the stoney silence from the usual suspects here on PF as well. After three days of either predicting or declaring the talks a failure, they were speechless.

    At least until the trashier right wing blogs concocted some nonsense for them to latch on to.
     
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    Look at this...liberals, who in this country have hated and protested everything nuclear for decades, are happy that someone's going nuclear and it figures it would be a Muslim country who hates us. Buncha '***** if you ask me.
     

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