Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with Iranian nuclear scientists and managers in Tehran, Feb. 22, 2012.
Hardliners Hold Fire On Iran Nuclear Deal, But For How Long? -- Voice of America
DUBAI — Iran's nuclear negotiators returned home as heroes on Sunday, greeted by jubilant supporters after securing a deal with world powers over the country's disputed atomic program.
Two days on, Iran's political realities are sinking in.
To ensure the deal stays on track, Iran's new moderate government needs to protect it from virulently anti-Western security hardliners who wield great economic and political power and are close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Those voices are mostly silent as yet, but as the complex accord's costs and benefits are weighed by Iran's factionalised political class, hardliners who call the United States and its allies “world arrogance” will be poised to pounce.
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Update #1: Not Everyone’s Happy: Hardliners in Iran Criticize Geneva Nuclear Deal -- Time
Update #2: Iranian hard-liners mixed on nuclear agreement -- Al-Monitor
My Comment: The hardliners are going to be silent as long as Iran's Supreme Leader continues to endorse the agreement. I also expect future Iranian opposition to the deal will be muted if this happens .... money has a nice way of making people happy, and if the oil markets do open up for Iranian crude there will be a change in the mindset of the Iranian political/religious class .... i.e. more accommodating and less confrontational.
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