Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Iran’s Chief Nuclear Negotiator Reveals That This Weekend's Nuclear Agreement Also Included A Secret Side Deal

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi. Press TV

New Iran Agreement Includes Secret Side Deal, Tehran Official Says -- L.A. Times

WASHINGTON – Key elements of a new nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers are contained in an informal, 30-page text not yet publicly acknowledged by Western officials, Iran’s chief negotiator said Monday.

Abbas Araqchi disclosed the existence of the document in a Persian-language interview with the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency.

The new agreement, announced over the weekend, sets out a timetable for how Iran and the six nations, led by the United States, will implement a deal reached in November that is aimed at restraining Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

When officials from Iran and the world powers announced that they had completed the implementing agreement, they didn’t release the text of the deal, nor did they acknowledge the existence of an informal addendum.

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My Comment: What is telling is that no one in the West is confirming and/or denying that such a "secret deal" was made. I guess this is also the reason why the hardliners in Iran are now happy with this deal .... they know the details of this secret side deal.

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