Posted on 12/28/2013 4:59:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
EU countries have informally told the European Parliament they want the Union’s foreign service to open an embassy in Iran.
Tarja Cronberg, a Finnish Green MEP who chairs the parliament’s Iran delegation, said member states’ ambassadors in Tehran backed the idea when she met them in the Iranian capital on an official trip earlier this month. […]
The EU already has embassies in other pariah states, such as Belarus.
But Iran and the EU remain wary of each other despite the Geneva breakthrough. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
That is my question: What Breakthrough?
Do they mean the deal that Kerry made giving Iran money and permission to continue building their Nuke while leaving an American hostage and not even mentioning him in the deal?
That wasn’t a breakthrough it was a surrender with a payoff.
More radical Muslim sucking up by the degenerate Euro-Weenies.
Iran has blatantly proved in past that it does not respect diplomatic agreements, technically the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations
Iran considers foreign diplomats as little more than hostages.
Most EU member states already have their own embassies in Iran so adding an official EU mission there seems like diplomatic window dressing.
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