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Real Politics!

Finally, logic and pragmatism overruled the dark predictions that surrounded the Geneva meeting between Iran and the European Union.

The negotiations did not end in failure as some gloomy pundits in Europe and elsewhere were predicting. European Union diplomats here are describing the outcome of the crucial meeting as a “success“ after Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, and the foreign ministers of France, Germany, the UK and EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, agreed to resume negotiations in two months.

Rowhani expressed hope that a final agreement would be reached soon. The gist of the problem is that the US and a few of its closest European allies have a problem with Iran acquiring nuclear technology.

After losing the clumsy propaganda war over WMDs in Iraq, the US was in dire need of diverting world attention. What better and less costly detour than re-shifting the spotlight on Iran and its nuclear program?
But the trouble is that at some point the truth catches up. Despite all the hostility from the ultra orthodox neocons in Washington, and their over and covert manipulation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog did not find any “smoking guns“ in Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

Hats off to Iranian diplomacy which played it well and played it clean. The consistent stress on “alienable right“ and “peaceful nuclear technology“ sounded more and more convincing in European ears.

But the Europeans - who have invested heavily in the process of dialogue and engagement with the Islamic Republic to outmaneuver the American policy of boycotts and military threats Ð have also performed well enough.