The deal was only marred by Khamenei's little "Death to America" rhetoric in the middle of it. But there is Rouhani, the Prime Minister, who is far more moderate; who has wished Jewish people a happy holy day before. It's important somehow to keep advocating for the Prime Minister to rule Iran instead of the ayatollahs, in my opinion. Those old shits are as unholy as any other gold-frocked, worldly-power priest who has forgotten the injunction we commonly refer to as "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's."
Another thing we can do to help is to start social media pages in favor of the peace process. I did this on Facebook before finding out that Zuckerberg is an Israeli loyalist and that anyone who does so on FB is stalked and harassed, sad to say.
The one thing about Iran that's probably going to work in favor of the peace process is this: it is a HUGE nation and a massive place for business to be done. If the sanctions fall, all sorts of people will build business ties that make war harder.
Best outcome is we see Iran fall into the same status as China: it becomes a valuable American business partner whom we don't trust fully but is too essential to the world economy to go to war with.
A bad possible outcome is it becomes another Saudi Arabia; a haven for unrest and jihadism that makes quiet deals with the powers that be here, like the Bushes did in Saudi.
The worst outcome - and the one we all should watch for - is that the Israelis send Mossad or Kidon to attack a Western target with Iranian masks on to scuttle the peace process. Bibi is not above this; we all saw what he tried to do in terms of doing an end-run around the Obama Administration.
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
--Frederick Douglass
