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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 26-Nov-2013
26-Nov-13 World View -- Jubilation in Tehran over Iran's nuclear deal

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26-Nov-13 World View -- Jubilation in Tehran over Iran's nuclear deal

Pakistan's Imran Khan blockades supplies to Nato in Afghanistan

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Jubilation in Tehran over Iran's nuclear deal
Pakistan's Imran Khan blockades supplies to Nato in Afghanistan

Jubilation in Tehran over Iran's nuclear deal

Jubilant Iranians holding posters of president Hassan Rouhani welcome the return of victorious negotiator Javad Zarif in Tehran on Sunday (AP)

Jubilant Iranians holding posters of president Hassan Rouhani welcome the return of victorious negotiator Javad Zarif in Tehran on Sunday (AP)

Iranians cheered foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on his return to Tehran, after successfully negotiating the nuclear deal in Geneva. He was praised as an "ambassador of peace", and chants rang out, "No to war, sanctions, surrender and insult."

In particular, they were jubilant that Zarif was able to gloat that he won the concession that Iran can continue enriching nuclear material, and will continue. Zarif directly contradicted the claim by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after the deal had been signed that Iran had no right to enrich, but Zarif gloated, "Enrichment was recognized." Defeating the West on enrichment was a key point of pride for the Iranians, resulting in the jubilation.

This was only a six-month deal, to buy time before reaching a final deal. According to the U.N. resolutions on the subject, Iran must stop enriching. It remains to be seen which side will back down on the issue of enriching. CS Monitor and Time

Pakistan's Imran Khan blockades supplies to Nato in Afghanistan

Imran Khan, Pakistan's former cricket superstar turned anti-American politician, has called on his supporters in his Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) political party to blockade transit routes used by trucks to carry Nato supplies from the port at Karachi through Pakistan to Afghanistan. Khan called for the blockade after a November 21 American drone strike killed two senior Haqqani network leaders, along with three Taliban leaders. (See "22-Nov-13 World View -- New American drone strike stirs outrage in Pakistan")

Khan is threatening to continue the blockade until all American drone strikes are ended. Khan wants to end Taliban terrorism politically by negotiating with the terrorists, a concept that can be accurately defined as a fantasy. According to Khan:

"Pakistan cannot take this any longer. It has paid a heavy price for participating in the US war in Afghanistan and I'm afraid the time has come to change strategy. And the strategy is political settlement. But there won't be a political settlement as long as there are drone attacks."

Khan's power base is the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bordering on Pakistan's tribal area which, in turn, borders on Afghanistan. Khan is setting national policy from a provincial level, and he's not receiving support from Pakistan's president Nawaz Sharif, or the national government. So it's not expected that the blockade will last so long that it will harm the Nato forces, especially since they expected the blockade and are prepared for it. Daily Times (Pakistan) and Channel News Asia (Singapore)

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