The aircraft of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, stands alongside the aircraft of... Read More
Zurich air traffic controllers may have inadvertently succeeded where
diplomats have failed for decades: to bring Israelis and Iranians
together.
As the jets of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Switzerland today to take their leaders to the World Economic Forum, their planes were parked side-by-side under cloudy skies.
Rouhani,
the first Iranian leader in a decade to visit Davos for the World
Economic Forum, will be looking for deals to boost an economy that
shrank more than 5 percent in the last fiscal year through March under
the weight of international sanctions. He’s due to address the forum in
the ski resort tomorrow during a session called “Iran in the World.”
Netanyahu,
among the most outspoken critics of the Iranian government, is seeking
to keep the sanctions in place. He has called Rouhani a “wolf in sheep’s
clothing” and urged the world to be wary of his “charm offensive.”
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