Iran's foreign minister summoned to parliament over walk with Kerry

[uhnope]

Source: Reuters

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to appear before parliament following controversy over a promenade with his American counterpart during intense nuclear negotiations in Geneva, state media reported on Sunday.

Zarif, who leads Tehran's talks with "P5+1" - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - had a 15-minute walk down Geneva sidewalks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during discussions on Jan. 14 aimed at reaching a settlement of the 12-year nuclear dispute between Iran and the West. Media images of the top diplomats from old adversaries strolling together in a foreign land provoked an outcry among Iranian hard-liners deeply wary of rapprochement with the "Great Satan".

On Friday, conservative-leaning prayer leaders heaped scorn on Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani for the "diplomatic slip-up" and newspapers said 21 members of parliament had signed a petition to call in the moderate minister to provide an explanation.

"Given the Great Satan's endless demands and sabotage during the course of the nuclear negotiations, there is no conceivable ground for intimacy between the foreign ministers of Iran and America," said the petition published in hard-line Fars News.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/25/us-iran-nuclear-usa-idUSKBN0KY0MB20150125

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Hey baby, do the Great Satan walk! In case anyone thought the Iranian government was getting any less insane


Above: How Satan makes you walk

[Iliyah]

1. In GOPer's tiny little minds, this is what they invision for USA.

One rule.

[George II]

2. I hate to say it, but his days are numbered.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Whose days are numbered? Kerry's? Rouhani's?

In any case, you are right. Their days are numbered.

Kerry will be out of office in about 700 days.

Rouhani will be out of office in about 1000 days.

[George II]

7. Who is the subject of the article?

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. The Iranian government is no more insane than the US government.

Moderates like Rouhani and the foreign minister are getting shit from the Iranian equivalent of Marco Rubio and John McCain.

And it was 21 conservative Majlis members who signed the critical letter. Out of 290.

[newfie11]

5. +1! Nt

[George II]

6. "The Iranian government is no more insane than the US government"....

...are you serious?

[uhnope]

11. aren't they amazing?

Some people live in an Orwellian, Kafkaesque mindset

[uhnope]

10. lol. Thanks for showing everyone the typical reaction of the America-always-wrong crowd

Probably in this case also motivated by the Iran-Russia military partnership. So let's defend Iran by attacking US! Yay!

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/01/20/russia-and-iran-sign-military-cooperation-deal

[freshwest]

12. Sounds like a resounding success being attacked by their batshit crazy versions of John McCain...

And still on the Great Satan thing, HUH?

Well, there is the matter of those cookies:



Yummy! Chowing down!

[840high]

13. You're joking. Right?

[forest444]

9. Pope Francis said it best:

It's the small steps of diplomacy, that lead to peace.