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Friday, June 1, 2012

''Dashed Hopes for Baghdad Breakthrough''

From Foreign Policy in Focus

''The recently concluded negotiations between Iran and the world powers, the so-called P5+1, was perhaps the first serious attempt at resolving the Iranian nuclear impasse since the 2009 botched negotiations. Both sides entered the talks with a strong sense of cautious optimism, thinking maybe this time would be different. Even former top American diplomats joined the euphoric run up to the Baghdad talks. According to the former lead U.S. negotiator  on Iran, Nicholas Burns, “for the first time in 32 years, since the Iranian revolution, there is the possibility of serious, substantive and sustained talks with Iran.”

However, to everyone’s disappointment, the talks ended with a last-ditch agreement to hold more talks in the near future.''

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