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| Iranians Celebrate Agreement Online and in the Streets | Iranians Celebrate Agreement Online and in the Streets |
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| As my colleague Thomas Erdbrink reported from Iran’s capital, Tehran, Iranians greeted news of a framework nuclear agreement that could bring an end to international sanctions and isolation warily at first, and then somewhat more loudly. | As my colleague Thomas Erdbrink reported from Iran’s capital, Tehran, Iranians greeted news of a framework nuclear agreement that could bring an end to international sanctions and isolation warily at first, and then somewhat more loudly. |
| Within hours of the deal’s being announced on Twitter by Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, journalists and bloggers were sharing glimpses of public and private joy, with video and images of honking car horns and dancing in the streets spreading online. | Within hours of the deal’s being announced on Twitter by Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, journalists and bloggers were sharing glimpses of public and private joy, with video and images of honking car horns and dancing in the streets spreading online. |
| Supporters of the agreement rallied outside the foreign ministry, singing in honor of the negotiators, and waved flags and victory signs on the streets of the capital. | Supporters of the agreement rallied outside the foreign ministry, singing in honor of the negotiators, and waved flags and victory signs on the streets of the capital. |
| Mr. Zarif celebrated on a plane back to Tehran with Iranian journalists who had covered the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, in a scene captured on video and uploaded to Instagram by Ali Araghchi, a nephew of Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi. | Mr. Zarif celebrated on a plane back to Tehran with Iranian journalists who had covered the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, in a scene captured on video and uploaded to Instagram by Ali Araghchi, a nephew of Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi. |
| Early Friday, Mr. Zarif was given a hero’s welcome at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran by Iranian reformists. | |
| As Trita Parsi, the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council, noted, in Facebook video of the minister’s motorcade leaving the airport the crowd could be heard chanting “condolences” to enemies of the deal — including both Israel and the hardliners at the Tehran daily Keyhan — and comparing Mr. Zarif to Mohammad Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister deposed in a C.I.A.-led coup in 1953. |