The spring has announced itself conspicuously here in The Hague. Steady sunshine for some days in a row has awakened the trees and all across town, flowers of all kind are in blossom. For this Iranian couple, this is the first spring in The Netherlands and as it turns out, we just witnessed another kind of meltdown in our neighborhood and this is not an ordinary frost but a thick ice of over 30 years of age that has just cracked between Iran and the US.
Today, just a few streets above us, the Afghanistan summit provided a chance for an ice-breaking meeting between the two countries. Although this is not the first time they collaborated over Afghanistan but this can be considered a strong message -in a positive way- that Obama administration is willing to change the game. I hope Iran and the US to cut the crap and instead of only talking about Iraq and Afghanistan, sit and talk about their own issues. Ironically, The Hague is also home to an everlasting tribunal that is supposed to resolve disputes over Iranian investments in the US before the revolution. Hope to see The Hague as a starting point for an end to all this. (Update: and here: it just blew out)
The weather changes very fast here and it may become gray and wet in no time again....lets enjoy the Sun for the moment.



