Iran is taking a cautious approach to Saturday’s agreement between the U.S. and Russia to reduce the Syrian government’s stockpile of chemical weapons, offering a small sign that its leaders may see an opportunity for a diplomatic breakthrough with Washington in the near future.
Kamran Jebreili/AP - Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani, center, arrives at Masoumeh shrine to casts his ballot for the parliamentary elections March 2, 2012.
Twenty-four hours after the deal was announced, neither Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani, nor his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, had commented on the arrangement, which greatly diminished the likelihood of a U.S. lead attack in response to the alleged Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria.