Mansouled Fiery Islands: Bombing Iran is Off the Table, for six months, anyway.

The United Nation's Security Council's permanent members (China, Russia, England, France, and the United States), Germany, and Iran have agreed on a six-month inspected freeze of Iran's uranium enrichment program!

In return, international sanctions against Ian will be modified.

According toThe Guardian (the New York Times, RT and The Tehran Times in accord)

Iran will get access to $4.2bn (£2.59bn) in foreign exchange as part of the accord, and was also expected to receive limited sanctions relief on gold, petrochemicals and cars, a Western diplomat said.

The Times of Oman says that China's

. . . state media hailed the deal as an "exhilarating result" of negotiations based on "sincerity and mutual respect".

I'm exhilarated too. Good for common sense!

Benjamin Netanyahu was predictably downcast by the growing prospect on No Bombing of Iran. From The Guardian, supra,

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told media in Moscow on Thursday that Iran was essentially given an "unbelievable Christmas present – the capacity to maintain this [nuclear] breakout capability for practically no concessions at all".

I hope that the "petrochemical" part of the agreement will include a decision by the United States not to punish Pakistan if it fulfills its contract with Iran to complete the Iran-Pakistan Pipeline that will open Iran's Pars natural gas field, the largest in the world, to the East. Pakistan needs Iranian gas, and so does India and China.

The Guardian's report says that Iran will, among other things, suspend work Arak research reactor, not yet completed,and a major international concern.

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Arak is an ancient city located here:

Arak reactor | Peace and Freedom

From Wikipedia:

Arak pronunciation (help·info) (Persian: اراک‎, also Romanized as Arāk and ‘Irāq; formerly, Solţānābād and Sultānābād) is a city in and the capital of Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 526,182, in 160,761 families. [Citations omitted.]

The modern city of Arak was founded in 1795 by a Georgian warlord who fled Georgia before advancing armies of Russia's Catherine the Great. The original inhabitants were Georgian; then Armenians arrived; now the city and province are Persian. For a more complete history see Wikipedia, supra.

Scenes from Arak:

Folks we would kill if we were to Bomb Iran. Looks like friends who worked in oil fields in South Texas.

Growing tomatoes hydroponically.

Arakians wrestle, swim, and play football, basketball, and volleyball, of course, and Arak peculiar in this: it is the only city that posts no images of its footballers or of its football or wrestling stadiua. Perhaps Iranians are cautious that the Evil West will learn something about its nuclear capabilities from images of a footballer; perhaps no tourists go the and no locals see the need to post images of sports heroes.

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Israel's objections to first steps to protect Iran from being bombed and the Middle East from becoming a killing field is disappointing and expected; and cries out for an explanation, since Iran is not rational for Israel to fear Iran. Israel is reported to have some 250 Atomic Bombs, and its greatest ally, the United States, the most powerful nation on Earth, has the present ability to do Iran great harm:

The question Why Israel's irrational fear of Iran will be explored in a later post.

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For small images of Arak guys seeking women, (brave buys, these) check out Arak Men - Arak Boys - Arak Guys (Iran). No record of guys seeking guys, of course. See Gay City News.