Thousands of people in Tehran turned out to greet returning Foreign Minister Javad Zarif following Thursday’s announcement of a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland. While far from finalized, the preliminary deal is a big political win for Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani, who came into office in 2013 pledging to end the Islamic Republic’s isolation from the West. Rouhani is addressing the Iranian public Friday, but Thursday signaled his approval of the deal in the preferred style of 21st-century diplomacy, favoriting Zarif’s tweet announcing the breakthrough. (That historic announcement was missed by the vast majority of Iranians, still legally barred from accessing Twitter.)
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