The deal between Iran and the P5+1 – the Security Council’s Five Permanent members + Germany of November 24, 2013 must be trated with utter care on both sides.<\/p>\n
Despite often being called a dictatorship, it is thanks to the elections in Iran that this historical new beginning has become possible.<\/p>\n
The road to the next round of negotiations – in Vienna on February 18 – should not be paved with threatening, hawkish or humiliating statements by various Western politicians and media.<\/p>\n
Dr. Farhang Jahanpour<\/a> of Oxford University, board member of TFF and for many years co-operating with BBC has written two background articles that you just should not miss up to these new talks.<\/p>\n One is a very short guide to Iran’s modern history<\/a>.<\/p>\n If we do not understand the culture and history, we are bound to make offensive statements and take wrong steps.<\/p>\n You probably don’t have time to read all the thick books; but this will take you only a few minutes and offer substantial, reliable knowledge from a person who used to be professor at Isfahan’s University.<\/p>\n