AP Exclusive: Draft agreement cuts Iran's nuclear hardware

[ResurgentIran]

It seems the sanctions are actually to increase even if Iran reaches a deal: CIA Director: Sanctions Will Continue Even After a Nuclear Deal

It is sanctions either way. With the deal or without it.

I guess it is better to pull out of NPT and build nukes. The Americans are not serious about negotiations.

I think US will do whatever it takes and use whatever excuse they have to put pressure on Iran.
But as you well know, today's world is more multilateral/multipolar.
So in the face of an international agreement, the US can not expect to marshal other countries to pressure Iran, as easily.
The sanctions regime will erode. As I said earier, US will keep their own sanctions in place no matter what.
But Iran can develop closer economic trade relations with BRICS.

The global power balance is shifting day by day. In few decades time, countries like China will be much larger economically and maybe even militarily. So the US is probably gonna be busy with that.

 

[haman10]

Sorry if I offended you I was just trying to give support...

My apologies .

Ignore him

 

[Abii]

It seems the sanctions are actually to increase even if Iran reaches a deal: CIA Director: Sanctions Will Continue Even After a Nuclear Deal

It is sanctions either way. With the deal or without it.

I guess it is better to pull out of NPT and build nukes. The Americans are not serious about negotiations.

I looked at your article. It doesn't talk about an increase. You do. That's your opinion.

The director is trying to make people understand that sanction will not be lifted immediately. The planktons of the world, both in the East and the West think that the sanctions will be gone with a stroke of a pen next week. That's not how it works. The Zarif and Kerry camps are working hard to start something great. It will take a couple of decades, best case scenario, for things to really normalize.

But of course you can leave the NPT and get pommeled to the stone age if you wish. Iran isn't even after nukes and the whole world is sanctioning the country to death. In 2011 Iran was exporting 3+ million barrels a day of oil. Today that figure sits barely at 1 million. They're literally killing Iran slowly and nobody is even making nukes. Leave the NPT and within 1 week 3 aircraft carriers will be pommeling Iran off the Indian ocean. Within a month the Europeans will join too.

Your akhoond leaders can sense death. That's why they are at the table. If they thought they could go on, they wouldn't be sitting at the table negotiating.

 

[Hindustani78]

Iran, world powers close in on 2-3 page nuclear deal - The Hindu
Updated: March 28, 2015 18:56 IST

Iran and major powers are close to agreeing a two-or three-page accord with specific numbers as the basis of a resolution of a 12-year standoff over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, officials have told Reuters.

As the French and German Foreign Ministers arrived in Switzerland on Saturday to join talks between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Western and Iranian officials familiar with the negotiations cautioned that they could still fail.

Mr. Kerry and Mr. Zarif have been in Lausanne for days to try to reach an outline agreement by a self-imposed deadline of March 31 between Iran on the one hand and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China on the other.

"The sides are very, very close to the final step and it could be signed or agreed and announced verbally," a senior Iranian official familiar with the talks told Reuters.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters on arrival: "I hope we can get a robust agreement. Iran has the right to civil nuclear power, but with regard to the atomic bomb, it's 'no'."

"The talks were long and difficult," he added. "We have moved forward on certain points, but on others not enough."

18 months of talks

The negotiations, under way for nearly 18 months, aim to hammer out an accord under which Iran, which denies any ambition to build nuclear weapons, halts sensitive nuclear work in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, with the ultimate aim of reducing the risk of a war in the Middle East.

If agreed, the document would cover key numbers for a comprehensive agreement between Iran and the six powers, such as the maximum number and types of uranium enrichment centrifuges Iran could operate, the size of uranium stockpiles it could maintain, the types of atomic research and development it could undertake, and details on the lifting of international sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy.

Comprehensive deal by June

One of the key numbers is expected to be the duration of the agreement, which the officials said would have to be in place for more than 10 years. Once it expired, there would probably be a period of special U.N. monitoring of Tehran's nuclear programme.

The framework accord should be followed by a comprehensive deal by June 30 that includes full technical details on the limits set for Iran's sensitive nuclear activities.

It remains unclear whether the framework deal will be formally signed or agreed verbally. The Iranians have expressed concern that a written agreement would limit their negotiating space when the technical details are worked out.

 

[Hindustani78]

Iranian negotiator denies discussion of 2-3 page nuclear deal: IRNA| Reuters
A member of Iran's negotiating team at ongoing nuclear talks in Switzerland denied reports that the two sides are closing in a 2- to 3-page preliminary accord, state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.

Majid Takht-Ravanchi told IRNA there been no discussion of such an accord, IRNA said.

Reuters reported on Friday that Iran and world powers -- the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China -- were getting close to such a deal, citing senior Iranian and Western officials.

A Western diplomat who confirmed the Reuters story dismissed Ravanchi’s remarks as incorrect and aimed at a domestic audience.

(Reporting by Sam Wilkin; Editing by Toby Chopra)

 

[Arminkh]

AFP: Iran Deal Reached in Switzerland - Breitbart

The news agency Agence France-Presse reports from Lausanne, Switzerland that Iran and the P5+1 powers (the five UN Security Council permanent members, plus Germany) have reached “provisional agreement” on the terms of nuclear deal.
Though the terms were not released as the news broke at roughly 9:15 a.m. EDT, the framework is thought to be generous to Iran, as the U.S. and other western nations had caved on key positions in the days leading up to a March 31 deadline.

Breitbart News had predicted that a deal would be reached Sunday, as the travel schedules of senior world leaders in Switzerland for the negotiations made it virtually impossible for all of them to be present after Sunday’s deliberations.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the terms of the emerging deal “even worse” than expected.

One unconfirmed source reports that the deal includes an agreement to cut Iran’s centrifuges by two-thirds, “more or less.”

Iran is reportedly resisting reports that a deal has been reached, citing them as efforts by the Western powers to use the media to pressure it into signing an agreement.