Much was made of the positive diplomatic noises that came out of the first round of talks on Iran's nuclear program in Geneva earlier this month. The spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's noted the novelty of "very detailed technical discussions," while the US praised a "level of seriousness and substance that we have not seen before."
Those positive noises were echoed by Tehran this week, after a meeting between Iranian officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency at its headquarters in Vienna, when Iranian ambassador Reza Najafi said, "I believe [that] with the submission of these new proposals by Iran, we have been able to open a new chapter of cooperation."