Source: Asis Times:
By Richard Javad Heydarian
After eight months of diplomatic hiatus, Iran and the “P5+1” powers – the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany – were finally able to return to the negotiating table. In Kazakhstan at the end of last month, to the surprise of many observers, they managed to pull off a potential breakthrough in the decade-long standoff over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.