With about 19 months
left in office, Barack Obama is turning his
attention to the unfinished
business of his presidency, The Hill reported on 21 June 2015.
Obama is rushing to complete a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal, a nuclear agreement with Iran and a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison. John Kerry will seek to discover on Saturday whether Tehran’s “red lines” have sabotaged the chances of a final nuclear agreement when he meets his Iranian counterpart in Vienna.
Obama is rushing to complete a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal, a nuclear agreement with Iran and a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison. John Kerry will seek to discover on Saturday whether Tehran’s “red lines” have sabotaged the chances of a final nuclear agreement when he meets his Iranian counterpart in Vienna.
The US secretary of
state will begin a new round of talks with Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian
foreign minister, three days before a deadline for a comprehensive agreement to resolve the confrontationover Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
The aim is to constrain
Iran’s nuclear program – particularly the elements that could be used to make
weapons – in return for easing sanctions. The outlines of such an accord were agreed on April 2 inLausanne,
Switzerland, raising hopes of a final settlement. As he left Washington on
Friday, Mr. Kerry said that he was “always hopeful”.
But the Iranian Ayatollah , made a crucial intervention on Tuesday, spelling
out his terms for a deal - and appearing to renege on commitments that have
already been made.
The Iranian regime has
since released a summary of seven “red
lines in nuclear negotiations”. Two in particular will prove troublesome at the
Vienna talks.
The Mullah wants “all
economic, financial and banking sanctions – either by the United NationsSecurity Council, the US Congress or US Administration – to be lifted on the
same day a deal is signed”.
But the "joint statement" agreed between Mullahs and six world powers in Lausanne says that EU and US sanctions will be lifted "simultaneously" with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verifying that Iran has kept its "key nuclear commitments".
But the "joint statement" agreed between Mullahs and six world powers in Lausanne says that EU and US sanctions will be lifted "simultaneously" with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verifying that Iran has kept its "key nuclear commitments".
Although chances of an agreement in Vienna are still
“Under question” , regarding the Iran talks, Senator Corker said, “Congress had
no role in this until we passed a bill recently because the president had the
ability to go directly to the U.N. Security Council with national security
waivers he was given. They are trying to cross these two remaining red lines…
Congress is sharpening its knives with just
one week to go before the June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran, but to solve the problem and to pass through this
threat, US should step away from the table and make sure that the world
community can end up with a deal to prove that they are strong enough against
the Iranian fundamentalismhttp://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/terrorism-fundamentalism.
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