Hold please, we're cooking.
The difficulty in showing any excitement or optimism with Iran is that the Iranian's seem hell bent on ensuring we know that they are untrustworthy and simply playing the system to their advantage.
"TEHRAN, NOVEMBER 30: Iran reiterated today it was only prepared to freeze its uranium enrichment activities for a few months and would not, as the EU and Washington want, permanently mothball facilities which could make atomic bombs.How quant? The length of the suspension will be as long as the negotiations last....The comments, made by Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, were a further blow to European Union efforts to persuade Tehran to scrap enrichment for good and were likely to fuel US concerns that Iran secretly plans to produce nuclear weapons.
"The length of the suspension will only be for the length of the negotiations with the Europeans and... must be rational and not too long," Hassan Rohani told reporters.
"We’re talking about months, not years," said the cleric, who is Secretary-General of Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council. The US has expressed scepticism that Iran will stick to the freeze. —Reuters
Whether in Quiet (which never mentioned Iran) or the Fiddler posts, the story has been and remains the same, Iran is an untrustworthy negotiator and must be dealt with as if hostile prior to the development of a nuclear arsenal, not after.
UPDATE: Ali Akbar Dareini offers an interesting summation for the AP.
