Monday, December 2, 2013

History made as Iran agrees with world powers to freeze nuclear program for six months.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512628/History-Iran-agrees-world-powers-freeze-nuclear-program-months.html
This article is a summary of some of the parts of the deal being made in regards to Iran. It gives the basic overview of what is to happen including: Iran must stop enriching uranium above 5%, and Iran must neutralize stockpiles of over 20$ uranium. In this article there are also photos of John Kerry and other world leaders involved with the deal including Russia's Foreign Minister. What stuck out to me about this article after reading about the neutralizing of stockpiles and the Russian foreign minister was how it's as if there was a Cold War shift. Obviously the Cold War ended, and Russia is no longer the grand enemy of the United States. Thirty years ago the U.S. and USSR were going at each other in debating nuclear energy and weapons, and now the U.S. and Russia are working together to get Iran to halt nuclear operations. Eventually the U.S. and Russia back in the day made deals to lower the amount of nuclear weapons and now the Iranians are being influenced to do so in a way. Iran isn't a superpower but I'm surprised the author didn't make some kind of comparison of Iran and Cold War Russia/U.S. relations.

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