Ace, I assumed that you read the entire article and had absorbed it's key points. I know that you are not obtuse, so your "pick up the phone" suggestion didn't strike me as being serious and not worthy of a response. But for some reason, you continue to insist that your question be answered. I can only assume that you are either being stubborn or that you have no understanding of the rules of diplomacy. I sincerely believe that the latter can not be true.
Here are some relevant snippets in case you missed them:
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...the Tehran government in the past has routinely jailed its citizens on charges of contact with the country it calls the "Great Satan,"
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No other Iranian president had attempted direct contact with his U.S. counterpart since the countries broke off diplomatic relations after student militants overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
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The eagerness for talks demonstrates a profound change in Iran's political orthodoxy, emphatically erasing a taboo against contact with Washington that has both defined and confined Tehran's public foreign policy for more than a quarter-century...
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"The taboo of the discussion is gone, but I don't think they've formed a consensus about normalization of relations," said a Western diplomat in Tehran. "But 'let's talk to the Americans' -- that was very controversial until recently."
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