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Nazarbayev Starts Off Week of Travel in Iran

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Nazarbayev Starts Off Week of Travel in Iran

He’ll head on to Istanbul and Uzbekistan later in the week.

Nazarbayev Starts Off Week of Travel in Iran
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is starting off a week of travel with an important visit to Iran. He was welcomed in style, with full military honors in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Monday.

The end of Iran’s international diplomatic isolation, a function of the lifting of sanctions following the successful completion and implementation of a nuclear deal signed last year between Tehran and the P5+1, was received with great enthusiasm in Central Asia. Kazakhstan in particular–which has made nonproliferation one of its calling cards–was pleased by the settling of a deal between Iran and the West. Not only was it a triumph for the country’s heartfelt nonproliferation position, but a potential economic boom.

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