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Sixty-Day Peace Process: What Can We Expect?

Fiona MacLeod

Iran Begins Historic Sixty-Day Process Of Doing Absolutely Nothing Tehran Celebrates Successful Agreement To Discuss Whether It Agreed To The Agreement TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian officials celebrated Friday after completing the first twenty-four hours of their historic sixty-day diplomatic initiative, during which they successfully signed an agreement, questioned the agreement, accepted the agreement conditionally, rejected several interpretations of the agreement and cancelled the first meeting intended to implement the agreement.…

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Iran Ceasefire

Harper Thames

Iran Ceasefire: Sixty Days Of Studiously Achieving Nothing Whitehall Hails Historic Breakthrough In Agreeing To Disagree Later, At Length, By Committee LONDON — Diplomats celebrated a breakthrough this week after negotiators reached a preliminary agreement allowing everyone involved to declare victory while carefully avoiding the uncomfortable task of working out whether anything had actually been solved. A Breakthrough Nobody In The Foreign Office Can Quite Define Under the framework, Iran receives negotiations,…

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Iran Deal: The Fine Print

Cyndi Himmelstiere

Trump Announces Historic Iran Deal, Insists Everyone Will Read The Fine Print Eventually Iran Agrees Not To Build Nuclear Weapons, Reserves The Right To Pursue Extremely Suspicious Science Projects LONDON —  President Donald Trump has announced what officials are calling a “historic” US-Iran framework deal this week, a diplomatic document so important that several members of Congress immediately demanded to read it before pretending they had already read it. Westminster,…

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The Diplomatic Middle Finger

Siobhan O’Donnell

Greenland’s New Universal Language: The Diplomatic Middle Finger Arctic Nation Perfects the Art of Frozen Rejection Nuuk — In what diplomatic historians are calling “the most eloquent non-verbal communication since Churchill’s V-sign,” Greenland has developed a comprehensive hand gesture vocabulary that translates roughly to “sod off” in 47 languages. The gesture system, unveiled during recent meetings with American and Danish officials, represents what experts describe as “refreshingly honest diplomacy.” Greenlanders…