http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416372/we-have-deal-iran-and-it-looks-they-got-almost-everything-they-wanted-patrick-brennanby Patrick Brennan April 2, 2015 2:06 PM
Western powers and Iran have announced that the framework for an eventual long-term deal on Iran’s nuclear program has been reached, defying expectations that they might just entirely blow past the end-of-March deadline.
A bit of good news:
Iran does appear to have agreed to ship most of its enriched uranium (which is a couple, relatively short steps from being weapons material) out of the country, to Russia. Not great, but there had been rumors they would insist on keeping the material.
The bad news: pretty much everything else.
There isn’t really a deal, there are just “parameters” (in the words of the EU representative today), and the explicit wording of them won’t even be made public. The details of the deal are supposed to be decided by the end of June, and it’s not clear that they will become public then, either. The actual interim agreement under which Iran, the U.S., international agencies, and others have been operating under for a year and a half now has never been made public.
The details, such as they are, are seriously worrisome. Tweets by the head of an Iranian government news agency, along with some (skeptical) context:
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416372/we-have-deal-iran-and-it-looks-they-got-almost-everything-they-wanted-patrick-brennan
