The personal touch: Zarif, Kerry and 10 US sailors

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Source: aljazeera

Cool-headed diplomacy, personal contacts, ad homiem relations prevent potentially dangerous incidents
Cool-headed diplomacy

Trigger-happy politicians - both in the US and in Iran - could very easily escalate such incidents to dangerous levels especially when the regional powers have become incessantly divisive against their own best interests.

Cool-headed diplomacy, personal contacts, ad hominem relations - today evident between Kerry and Zarif - are the key factors preventing potentially dangerous incidents.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/01/personal-touch-zarif-kerry-10-sailors-160113073931498.html

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/01/personal-touch-zarif-kerry-10-sailors-160113073931498.html

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Best Sec. of State in my lifetime. aka Grown ups at work. I bet Sec. Kerry and Iran's Foreign Minister
even speak French to each other.

[karynnj]

1. Very nice wording from Al Jazeera - and completing agree the Best Secretary of State in my lifetime

It is great to hear a comment like that from a Sunni news source - essentially praising the foreign ministers of both Iran and the US. It makes me think about all the stories of Kerry calling both Saudi Arabia and Iran - after the execution of the cleric and the burning of the SA embassy in Iran.

All the articles that were skeptical that Kerry's strong relationships build over his career make a real difference really begin to look rather foolish when it is clear that he has sealed deals thought impossible and has quietly acted to keep things calm.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Yeah, JK has been way too underrated as SOS

[blackspade]

2. Brava to Kerry.

I'm so glad that everyone acted rationally in this case.

I'm beginning to think that the US and Iran are beginning to synergize due to the increasing threat of Wahhabi Sunni militancy coming out of and financed by Saudi Arabia.

[B2G]

4. Synergize? Lol.

[blackspade]

7. We would have done the same to them.

And have. They were released promptly so what is your point?

But yes, synergize. There are obviously areas where or countries' interests intersect.

[Depaysement]

3. + 1,000,000

You can't rec this strongly enough.

[dem in texas]

6. Last Night the talking heads and Repubs went crazy over this.

If the administration had bothered to listen to them, we would have been at war with Iran this morning. Especially distasteful was the Republican talker John Heidleman on MSNBC, he posed himself as the expert because his wife was ex-Navy. I don't care for Chris Mathews but he jumped all over Heidleman. The other one who was out of control was Ted Cruz. I shudder to think about him being our President.

[gademocrat7]

8. K&R!

[one_voice]

9. Locking..

Doesn't meet SoP for LBN..

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The personal touch: Zarif, Kerry and 10 US sailors