Bloomberg: Negotiators at Iran Talks Said to Aim for Weekend Agreement
(Bloomberg) -- Negotiators aim to conclude a framework agreement over Iran’s nuclear program by March 29, diplomats said, as envoys reported progress after talks resumed in Switzerland.
Reaching an understanding by Sunday is a best-case scenario and the sides may be forced to go until March 31, according to three European and U.S. officials, who asked not to be named in line with diplomatic rules. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is provisionally scheduled to attend an event with President Barack Obama and Senate leaders on March 30.
Kerry resumed talks on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Beau Rivage Palace on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne. If an agreement is reached, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and top diplomats from China, France, Germany, and the U.K. will join them to formalize the pact, a spokesman for Russia’s foreign ministry told reporters.
More News On Reports That An Iranian Nuclear Deal Could Be Reached This Weekend
Diplomats voice optimism on reaching Iran deal by Tuesday deadline -- CNN
Good prospects for Iran nuclear deal, but obstacles remain -- Deutsche Welle
Iran upbeat about reaching ground-breaking nuclear deal as talks hit final stretch -- Sydney Morning Herald
Iran's Rouhani in diplomatic drive to push nuclear deal -- AFP
Putin, Rouhani express 'hope for success' at Iran talks: Kremlin -- Daily Star/AFP
Rouhani speaks with French, British, Russian leaders as nuclear talks resume -- Reuters
Iran President Speaks With French, British, Russian Leaders -- Radio Free Europe
UK and Iran agree framework Iran nuclear deal possible by month-end -- Reuters
Update: It appears that the U.S. has made major concessions .... U.S. Caves to Key Iranian Demands as Nuke Deal Comes Together (Washington Free Beacon).
6 comments:
This is very bad.
Kerry & Company are so shameless that they might as well break out the knee pads, turn the Federal treasury over to Iran.
This desire for a deal, any deal, is worse than the Munich agreement.
Chamberlain can hang his head a little higher.
The Munich Agreement could have actually worked if the British had place troops in Czechoslovakia or in some other communicated the strength of British resolve.
Chamberlain only gave away ethnically German areas on the fringe of Czechoslovakia (& also the main in of fortification of pillboxes and such). Still a followup to the agreement may have ensured that it worked.
I wonder if Kerry knows how to pole dance in drag?
Aizino,
Though I try to be a realist, I usually tend toward optimism, but now that's becoming harder. Every step and decision this Administration has made had a probable cost of great severity to a certain amount of people. At first it was hundreds, then thousands, and now it's millions. What is most dismal beyond the numbers is each step and decision was made strictly in the self regard of power and place, a recipe of great calamity in the harsh world. I still have optimism in a sense, after all 6 1/2 years after Munich Germany and Japan lay in complete ruins. But must we do this all over again? Events are saying yes now.
My mother and mother in law were on the receiving end of bombs in WW2 from the Axis and the Allies. One of them beat feet from the new Pearl of the Orient.
I really do not want a war.
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Obama cannot betray his DNA (as Jerry Doyle would put it). His side would call Germany occupied in the 60s, 70s, & 80s. Funny, but I never heard that complaint. If Germany is occupied, then America must be the occupier. How would the Left get anything right with such a world view? How would Obama get anything right?
Good. Smart move Mr. President.
You know, history didn't begin in 1933 and end in 1945. There's a whole heck of a lot of history to cite outside of cartoonish Nazi supervillains. I'm quite sure present day Iran doesn't measure up to 1930's Germany.
Smart move?
The Iraian negotiatro yells at Kerry.
For the past 6 months they have periodically said they have an agreements and then the Iranins come out a day or 2 later and say they do not.
"You know, history didn't begin in 1933 and end in 1945. There's a whole heck of a lot of history to cite outside of cartoonish Nazi supervillains."
You are right there is other history. The Iranian style of negotiation is like the North Koreans.
You might ask how cartoonish the Nazis were. 20 million Russians died during the Great Patriotic War.
When the cartoonish Wiley Coyote 'dies' in Road Runner, no one actually dies. 50 million people died during WW2 and that was real. How cartoonish was that?
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