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Subtle Signs Obama Diplomacy May Work on Iran

Al Monitor Washington correspondent Barbara Slavin cites numerous developments inside and outside Iran that suggest new possibilities for negotiations over Iran's nuclear program--and a general decline in tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

A worshipper holds an anti-U.S. President Barack Obama poster and portraits of killed Iranian nuclear scientists in Tehran 13/01/2012 — REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

After months of increasingly ominous war talk by the United States, Israel and Iran, there are intriguing signs of potential diplomatic progress over Iran’s nuclear program.

A series of events – both internal and external – have improved the odds for fruitful negotiations when the United States and its U.N. Security Council partners plus Germany – the so-called P5+1 -- sit down with Iran sometime next month after the Iranian New Year.

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