Zarif and Kerry Signal Momentum on Nuclear Pact
Analysis by Gareth Porter Reprint |
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 2014 (IPS) - As the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme approach the Jul. 20 deadline, both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have signaled through their carefully worded statements that they are now moving toward toward agreement on the two most crucial issues in the talks: the level of Iranian enrichment capability to be allowed and the duration of the agreement.
Their statements after two days of meetings Sunday and Monday suggest that both Kerry and Zarif now see a basis for an agreement that would freeze Irans enrichment capacity at somewhere around its present level of 10,000 operational centrifuges for a period of years.
They also indicated that the two sides have not yet agreed on how many years the agreement would last, but that the bargaining on that question has already begun.
The tone and content of Kerrys statements in particular contrasts sharply with remarks by a senior U.S. official shortly before Kerrys arrival in Vienna on Jul. 12, which accused Iran of failing to move from unworkable and inadequate positions that would not in fact assure us that their programme is exclusively peaceful.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/07/zarif-and-kerry-signal-momentum-on-nuclear-pact/
blm
(113,043 posts)His dealings with Iran could NOT have been made easier by Israel/Hamas situation.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)blm
(113,043 posts)nonstop. All the issues that were neglected for years while Bushies went around the world making things worse.