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Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« on: November 24, 2013, 02:26:10 am »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kerry-in-geneva-raising-hopes-for-historic-nuclear-deal-with-iran/2013/11/23/53e7bfe6-5430-11e3-9fe0-fd2ca728e67c_story.html




Denis Balibouse/AP - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives at Geneva International airport in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Nov.23, 2013 for the Iran nuclear talks.

   

By Anne Gearan and Joby Warrick, Updated: Saturday, November 23, 8:08 PM E-mail the writers

BREAKING NEWS: A historic agreement has been reached between Iran and six world powers on limits to Iran’s nuclear program, a European Union official has confirmed.

“We have reached agreement between E3+3 and Iran,” an EU spokesman said in Twitter posting.

 GENEVA — Iran and world powers seeking a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program remained stuck Saturday on the same complex questions that dashed earlier talks, despite strong signs that diplomats on all sides had come to this round expecting success.

Negotiations in this Swiss city ran into the late evening, with the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, the European Union and the United States huddled in a hotel conference room. Several of the diplomats met earlier in the day with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who told reporters that the parties remained divided on key details of the six-month trial deal.

“It is still too early to say if there will be a final agreement,” Zarif said.

The talks remained snarled despite the last-minute intervention of Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who flew to Geneva for the second time in two weeks to try to break the impasse. The Obama administration has been seeking to quickly finalize an agreement in the face of threats by Congress to impose additional economic sanctions on Iran.

The marathon discussions with Iran, which extended into an unscheduled fourth day, were described by Western diplomats as “very difficult” and “intense.” Several officials sought to lower expectations that a resolution could be reached before Sunday, when Kerry and the other foreign ministers were due to depart.

Kerry, Zarif and the lead E.U. negotiator, Catherine Ashton, met late Saturday, but the session ended with no announcement of progress. Instead, Iran’s deputy foreign minister hardened his country’s position.

Although “98 percent” of the deal is done, Iran can accept no agreement that does not recognize what it calls its uranium enrichment rights, Abbas Araghchi told reporters.

“Any agreement without recognizing Iran’s right to enrich, practically and verbally, will be unacceptable for Tehran,” Araghchi said, according to Reuters.

Araghchi and Zarif have insisted that the deal hinges on international recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium, a matter of deep national pride.

The proposed deal offered to Iran would reportedly allow limited uranium enrichment, although under tight restrictions and heavy international monitoring. But Western officials have balked at recognizing a legal “right” to uranium enrichment, hoping instead to craft language in the final agreement that acknowledges the right of all countries to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Zarif appeared to endorse that approach publicly last week.

The sides also continued to haggle over details of the limited sanctions relief to be offered to Iran in return for scaling back its nuclear program, diplomats said. The relief would reportedly include freeing up a small portion of Iran’s overseas currency accounts and easing other trade restrictions.

The most painful sanction, affecting Iran’s oil and banking sectors, would remain until the end of the deal’s first phase, depending on Iran’s willingness to accept permanent curbs on its nuclear program, Western officials said.

Still another obstacle is Iran’s partially completed heavy-water reactor in the city of Arak. Western powers are pushing for a freeze on construction of the reactor’s core, which could, if completed, give Iran a pathway toward obtaining plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Kerry decided to intervene in the talks after negotiators reportedly made progress in overcoming key obstacles to a deal. Kerry joined Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who arrived in Geneva on Friday, as well as British and French counterparts who traveled to Switzerland early Saturday. Diplomats and technical teams from Iran and six major powers had been meeting privately since Wednesday to resolve a number of sticking points.

State Department officials cautioned that Kerry’s decision to attend the talks did not necessarily portend an imminent agreement.

Close U.S. ally Israel opposes the deal as too generous to an enemy it sees as a mortal threat. Israel is not a party to the talks.

The Obama administration has been unable to reassure Israel or another partner, Saudi Arabia, that the arrangement would make the Middle East safer. The interim deal is meant to build confidence and test Iranian follow-through in preparation for a larger agreement to install strict limits on the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for a gradual repeal of sanctions.

Talks were meant to end Friday. But they were extended as foreign ministers joined lower-level negotiators Saturday for what appeared to be final rounds ahead of what would be a historic agreement to rein in nuclear work that the United States and other nations fear is intended to one day produce atomic weapons.

A spokeswoman for Kerry said he would leave Sunday for other diplomatic meetings. Because Kerry is considered an essential player in finalizing the pact, that set an unofficial deadline to either strike a deal or announce that this round came close but not close enough.

Zarif planned to return to Tehran on Sunday. Zarif and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have pushed for a deal in the past three months, an about-face after years of unproductive talks. The negotiations have yielded the first extended talks between senior U.S. and Iranian diplomats in more than 30 years.
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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2013, 02:26:47 am »
God only knows what they gave away.....God help us all!
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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2013, 02:27:03 am »
I wonder how long that will last.

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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2013, 02:30:51 am »
Kerry is so flipping stupid God help us all........ The Iranians will do or say anything to have sanctions lifted and buy time to finish enriching uranium so they can build a bomb.  If anyone believes it is for cancer research they are nuts.
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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2013, 02:44:49 am »
Kerry is so flipping stupid God help us all........ The Iranians will do or say anything to have sanctions lifted and buy time to finish enriching uranium so they can build a bomb.  If anyone believes it is for cancer research they are nuts.

I agree. The minute the ink dries Iran will continue enriching uranium. There is a great book called "Israel vs. Iran" that is out on hardback and worth reading.

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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2013, 02:51:54 am »
I agree. The minute the ink dries Iran will continue enriching uranium. There is a great book called "Israel vs. Iran" that is out on hardback and worth reading.

They never stopped.  We will find out just how big of a joke this is when the Iranians test their first warhead.  Let us hope they do not choose to test it over Tel Aviv.


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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2013, 02:53:52 am »
They never stopped.  We will find out just how big of a joke this is when the Iranians test their first warhead.  Let us hope they do not choose to test it over Tel Aviv.

I agree.

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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2013, 01:48:33 pm »
Jean-Francois, like B. Hussein and handler Jarrett, won't rest until they've destroyed Israel.
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Re: Iran, world powers reach historic nuclear deal with Iran
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2013, 06:15:47 pm »
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