{"id":595,"date":"2013-02-27T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/?p=595"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:44:10","slug":"self-licking-ice-cream-cone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Self-licking ice cream cone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/27\/world\/middleeast\/skepticism-abounds-as-six-world-powers-resume-nuclear-talks-with-iran.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" alt=\"AshtonFeb2013\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AshtonFeb2013.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AshtonFeb2013.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AshtonFeb2013-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big news coming out of the current talks between the P5+1 and Iran in Almaty, Khazakstan is that the parties have agreed to&#8230;talk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-202_162-57571507\/iran-nuclear-talks-end-another-round-set-tehran\/\"><i>CBS News\u00a0<\/i>reports<\/a> that &#8220;Technical experts for each side will meet in Istanbul in mid-March to discuss the world powers&#8217; offer a<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">nd the high-level diplomats will re-convene again April 5 in Almaty<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">.&#8221; According to what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/27\/world\/middleeast\/skepticism-abounds-as-six-world-powers-resume-nuclear-talks-with-iran.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;\">Steven Erlanger reported for the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> prior to the conclusion of the meetings yesterday, this outcome is what Western diplomats were identifying as a success. I guess if you set the bar low enough, success is all but guaranteed. In all seriousness, while continuing diplomatic engagement is definitely preferable to other alternatives, a quick look back at a summary of the June 2012 meeting held in Moscow (like this one from the Arms Control Association) made me wonder if I was experiencing d\u00e9j\u00e0\u00a0vu. Even the pictures out are eerily similar:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/18\/us-iran-nuclear-talks-idUSBRE85H0C420120618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-598\" alt=\"European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton meets with Iran's Chief Negotiator Saeed Jalili in Moscow\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AshtonJune.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AshtonJune.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AshtonJune-300x192.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I prefer Jalili in a gray suit. The softer color compliments his salt and pepper hair and lends him a distinguished air. The\u00a0penguin suit is too severe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos:\u00a0The European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and Iran\u2019s chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili. Top: <em>New York Times<\/em> Bottom: <em>Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news coming out of the current talks between the P5+1 and Iran in Almaty, Khazakstan is that the parties have agreed to&#8230;talk. CBS News\u00a0reports that &#8220;Technical experts for each side will meet in Istanbul in mid-March to discuss the world powers&#8217; offer and the high-level diplomats will re-convene again April 5 in Almaty.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,16,29,57],"tags":[58,96],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anne","category-iran","category-nuclear-diplomacy","category-nuclear-news","tag-almaty","tag-iran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/nuclearphilosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/AshtonJune.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3CaZH-9B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}