Framework announced - Iran remains a nuclear threshold state , sanctions will be lifted

[rahi2357]

The statement was read out in a joint press conference in the Swiss city by the EU high representative, Federica Mogherini, and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday.

In the framework of the agreement, none of Iran’s nuclear facilities as well as the previous activities will be stopped, shut down or suspended and Iran’s nuclear activities in all its nuclear facilities including Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Arak will continue.

These comprehensive solutions will guarantee the continued enrichment program inside the Iranian territory and according to this, Iran will be allowed to go on with industrial production of nuclear fuel which is meant for running its nuclear power plants.

According to the solutions, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for enrichment program will cover a 10-year period, during which more than 5,000 centrifuge machines will continue producing enriched material at Natanz facility up to the 3.67-percent level. Extra machines and the related infrastructure in the facility will be collected by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to be replaced by new machines consistent with the allowed standards. Accordingly, Iran will be allowed to allocate the current stockpile of enriched materials for the purpose of producing nuclear fuel or swapping it with uranium in the international markets.

Iran will continue research and development program on advanced centrifuge machines and will be also able to keep initiating and completing its R & D program on IR-4, IR-5, IR-6 and IR-8 machines in the 10-year period of the agreement.

PressTV-Iran, P5+1 adopt joint statement

 

[Arminkh]

Great news indeed.

 

[yavar]

BS they only had verbal agreement nothing more nothing was signed now we have to wait till June

 

[rahi2357]

as expected :

Israel slams Iran nuclear framework as detached from ‘wretched’ reality
Israel on Thursday dismissed celebration of a nuclear framework deal between major powers and Iran, calling it detached from reality, and vowed to continue lobbying to prevent a “bad” final agreement.

Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement after the announcements in Switzerland:

“The smiles in Lausanne are detached from wretched reality in which Iran refuses to make any concessions on the nuclear issue and contiues to threaten Israel and all other countries in the Middle East.

 

[Arminkh]

as expected :

Israel slams Iran nuclear framework as detached from ‘wretched’ reality
Israel on Thursday dismissed celebration of a nuclear framework deal between major powers and Iran, calling it detached from reality, and vowed to continue lobbying to prevent a “bad” final agreement.

Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement after the announcements in Switzerland:

“The smiles in Lausanne are detached from wretched reality in which Iran refuses to make any concessions on the nuclear issue and contiues to threaten Israel and all other countries in the Middle East.

Reminds me of "Dayi John Napoleon's" obsession with British

let them bark. We don't care, US doesn't care, .....

 

[Draco.IMF]

@ yavar

is this a good deal if signed?

 

[Shahryar Hedayati]

Thank goodness we finally get a win!

 

[yavar]

@ yavar

is this a good deal if signed?

Nothing has been written zero not a word .
so from now on they are going to start negation to write so big zero .

But for Zarif to come out and make verbal announcement with European minister was big mistake .

 

[Arminkh]

The 5 Keys to a Final Nuclear Deal With Iran

The details of the agreement are only part of it. Here's what else matters.

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The U.S., Iran, the European Union, Russia and China announced that they had “reached solutions on key parameters” to a nuclear deal April 2 after more than a week of tough negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Speaking at the White House, President Obama called the deal “historic” but also said that it was only a “framework” that depended on a final written agreement being set to paper in coming weeks.

In principle, the deal traded limits on the Iranian nuclear program and broad but unspecified international inspections in exchange for the lifting of U.S. and E.U. sanctions and conditional removal of United Nations sanctions. Obama said that until the written agreement was signed, “our work is not yet done” and that if Iran backslid, “there will be no deal.”

Five things will determine whether the U.S. and Iran can ultimately reach a signed, sealed agreement.

1. What the deal says. Iranian acceptance of intrusive international monitoring of its nuclear program, and the ability of the U.S. and others to reimpose penalties if Iran cheats on a deal are the most important parts of any agreement for the Obama administration. The April 2 statement includes some specifics of the inspections, but leaves others open. Iran has apparently agreed to inspections of all parts of the Iranian nuclear program from mining and milling uranium to suspected nuclear weapons research facilities, and is “required to grant access” to suspicious sites. But the details of that access, its frequency and any limits Iran might try to impose are unclear. If the inspectors, or Western spies, turn up evidence of cheating, the U.S. wants to be able to reimpose the tough economic sanctions that forced Iran to the negotiating table without engaging in lengthy diplomatic wrangling at the U.N. The April 2 agreement speaks of removing some UN sanctions, maintaining others and says a “dispute resolution process” will be put in place.

1. How Obama handles Congress. The March 31 deadline that drove the current round of talks was actually just a way for the administration to get the U.S. Congress off its back. The real deadline is the June 30 expiration of the Nov. 2013 interim agreement which froze Iran’s nuclear program in return for freezing Western sanctions. Many in Congress believe, rightly, that tough U.S. sanctions helped force Iran to sign that interim agreement to begin with, and now Republicans and some Democrats want a say in whether those sanctions get lifted. Some want to take action to force Iran to agree to concessions in writing. Congressional action could backfire and undermine the April 2 statement before a final deal is written down and signed. The administration is negotiating the terms of any Congressional action, and the outcome of those discussions is unclear.

1. How Obama handles the international coalition. The greatest downside to the recent talks in Lausanne, from the U.S. perspective, was the appearance of fractures in the international sanctions coalition. Russia and China’s agreement to squeeze Iran through U.N. sanctions was another key to Iranian concessions over the last few years. At one point in the lengthy talks in Switzerland, Russia seemed to side with Iran over whether a deal had been agreed even as the U.S. and France said one hadn’t, raising the danger of a split. If Iran can divide the U.S. and the E.U. from Russia before signing a final deal June 30, it could escape sanctions without having to follow through on the April 2 concessions it provisionally agreed to.

1. What happens in Iran and Saudi Arabia’s proxy war.Our magazine story this week details the region-wide proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran that is the urgent regional context for the nuclear issue. The Obama Administration is struggling to reassure allies in the Middle East that a deal with Iran doesn’t mean Washington is looking to help Iran’s ascendancy in the new, post-Arab Spring Middle East order. In his White House statement April 2, Obama said he would convene a conference with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab powers this spring as part of that effort. But the worsening violence in Yemen, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian and Saudi proxies are battling it out, could have an unexpected effect on the effort to reach a final written agreement.

1. How long everyone talks. If the U.S. and Iran can’t get a final written deal by June 30, an ultimate agreement would depend on whether the two sides agree to keep talking, and writing, anyway. Some administration officials have argued it would be better to keep the talks going than to see a complete collapse. Under the terms of the Nov. 2013 temporary agreement, Iran’s program is frozen and the sanctions are in place. But keeping Congress onside, the sanctions coalition together and the Iranians at the table may be impossible after the next deadline.

Iran Nuclear Deal: The Five Keys to an Agreement

 

[MoshteAhani]

If UNSC sanctions are going to get lifted (which is part of the deal) then i expect Iran to buy some new military equipment.

 

[Arminkh]

If UNSC sanctions are going to get lifted (which is part of the deal) then i expect Iran to buy some new military equipment.

True, but honestly this is the only part I don't like about this whole agreement. I don't want the local weapon production be overshadowed by imports.

 

[MoshteAhani]

True, but honestly this is the only part I don't like about this whole agreement. I don't want the local weapon production be overshadowed by imports.

My friend, local weapon production will benefit ALOT if we important foreign tech.

 

[yavar]

If UNSC sanctions are going to get lifted (which is part of the deal) then i expect Iran to buy some new military equipment.

As John Kerry said all sanction will be kept on Iran only sanction which going to be lifted united nation nuclear sanction . and as John Kerry added united nation sanction on Iran missile program will continue meaning there will be more sanction on Iran missile program
and it is clear the military export sanction will continue with excuse of if Iran get better defence Iran may feel it can walk out of deal .

So to all brothers please stop dreaming and make things up .

 

[Arminkh]

Thank goodness we finally get a win!

Talking about win, here is funny article about how masterful our negotiators are. Please read the highlighted are. Anyone who has ever done any serious negotiations knows how hard it is to turn a deadline that was meant to force you into agreement against the other side:

Obama Told Iran Nuclear Negotiators to Disregard Deadline in 11th Hour
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and DAVID E. SANGERAPRIL 1, 2015

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Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, and Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, discussed the status of talks on Iranian’s nuclear program.

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• LAUSANNE, Switzerland — If American negotiators are ultimately able to conclude a “political understanding” with Iran on itsnuclear program, as they said they were striving to do Thursday morning, the seeds might have been planted earlier in the week.
  
  With only hours to go on Tuesday night before the end-of-the-month deadline that had been set by the White House, Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz stepped into a large tent erected in a luxury hotel here and dialed into a video conference withPresident Obama.
  
  There was no way to meet the deadline, Mr. Kerry said from the tent, which was designed to defeat eavesdropping. The Iranians, he said, perhaps sensing that the deadline meant a lot in Washington and little in Tehran, were intransigent.
  
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  Secretary of State John Kerry during a break Wednesday in nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland. CreditRuben Sprich/Reuters
  Mr. Obama, according to two people familiar with the discussion, told Mr. Kerry and Mr. Moniz to ignore the deadline, make it clear that the president was ready to walk away and leave all sanctions on Iran in place, and see if that would change the dynamic.
  
  It is still not clear if the last-minute change in tactics will succeed in convincing the Iranians that the Obama administration does not want the accord more than they do, or yield a different result.
  
  But it was an example of the negotiating gamesmanship that has taken over the talks here. Mr. Kerry has kept his plane warmed up. Foreign ministers who came to sign an accord have returned home for other duties. France’s top diplomat, Laurent Fabius, tieless, came up in the elevator on Wednesday night musing to his aides that he had been there just a day before.
  
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  Mr. Kerry spent Wednesday night meeting again with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, for what diplomats said could be a series of pivotal sessions. At issue, officials said, were the pace at which sanctions would be lifted and restrictions on Iran’s ability to develop new, advanced centrifuges, which are over 20 times more powerful than its current models.
  
  Heading toward the meetings, Mr. Zarif repeated an oft-used talking point, insisting that Iran was showing flexibility and that it was up to the United States and its partners to reciprocate.
  
  “Our friends need to decide whether they want to be with Iran based on respect or whether they want to continue based on pressure,” Mr. Zarif said. “They have tested the other one; it is high time to test this one.”
  
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  For weeks, critics complained that the March 31 deadline the Obama administration had set for a preliminary accord might backfire by adding to the pressure on American negotiators to make last-minute concessions.
  
  The Obama administration has an eye to selling the agreement to a skeptical Congress. But winning the battle with Congress, the critics said, will depend more on what concrete agreements are reached here, and what issues are put off for further talks with the Iranians, than on whether a preliminary accord is settled on Wednesday or over the next week or two. And as French diplomats have repeatedly pointed out, the deadline for wrapping up a final, detailed accord is not until the end of June.
  
  Mr. Obama’s decision Tuesday night to ignore the deadline he had set for himself was intended to persuade the Iranian leadership, watching these sessions from Tehran, to think twice about the hard-nose brinkmanship Iran negotiators had exhibited in previous rounds of talks.
  
  “Naturally, whoever negotiates has to accept the risk of collapse,” said Mr. Steinmeier, who made it clear he was staying for another day. “But I say that in light of the convergence that we have achieved here in Switzerland, in Lausanne, it would be irresponsible to ignore the possibility of reaching an agreement.”
  
  Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, confirmed that Mr. Kerry had decided to stay on to give diplomacy another try.
  
  “We continue to make progress but have not reached a political understanding,” she said. “Therefore, Secretary Kerry will remain in Lausanne until at least Thursday morning to continue the negotiations.”
  
  The talks have been snarled by disagreements over what sort of research should be permitted on advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium; the pace of the lifting of sanctions, especially those imposed by the United Nations; and other issues. Another matter in dispute has been whether a preliminary accord should lay out specific limits, as the United States has insisted, or be more general, as Iran has preferred.
  
  As the sense of momentum built, news came that Philip Hammond, the British foreign secretary, was also returning here Thursday morning.
  
  “We are a few meters from the finishing line, but it’s always the last meters that are the most difficult,” Mr. Fabius told reporters in his most optimistic comments to date. “We will try and cross them.”
  
  
• Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said before the meetings Wednesday night that the Iranians were expected to present “new recommendations” on how to bridge the gaps that have been holding up the accord.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-talks.html?_r=0

 

[rahi2357]

Menendez indictment could jeopardize anti-Iran legislation: Report
Influential US Senator Robert Menendez’s decision to step aside as ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the wake of his indictment on corruption charges could jeopardize the Republican-dominated Congress's chances of approving an anti-Iran bill, a report says.

On Wednesday, Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, was indicted by a federal grand jury on corruption and bribery charges for using his influence to illegally benefit a Florida eye doctor.

The US Justice Department charged Menendez with using his office to improperly benefit a friend and major political donor.

The indictment forced Menendez to step aside as ranking member on the influential panel that would remove one of the Senate's most hawkish Democrats from the committee.

Menendez, former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been one of the detractors of President Barack Obama’s administration.

He has co-authored a controversial bill with Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that would prevent President Barack Obama from removing sanctions on Iran until Congress reviews a nuclear deal, and separate legislation that would tighten sanctions on Iran if it walks away from talks.

The Senate panel is scheduled to vote on April 14 on the legislation he co-authored with Corker demanding congressional review of an Iran agreement.

With the anti-Iran Democrat senator not on the panel, the bill is unlikely to gain Democratic support that the Obama administration has already threatened to veto, the Washington-based newspaper The Hill reported on Wednesday.

Corker told The Hill that he had "no knowledge of the judicial matters at hand" but said he expects Menendez "will continue to play a constructive role" on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

After Menendez, the next most senior Democrat on the influential panel is Senator Barbara Boxer, who is an ally of the president and opposes passing any anti-Iran legislation before the final July 1 deadline in the talks, the newspaper report said.

Top officials from Iran and the P5+1 – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – are holding negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, to reach a comprehensive deal on the Islamic Republic’s civilian nuclear program.

The talks were again held on Thursday, the eighth day of intense negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 aimed at laying the groundwork for a potentially historic agreement to resolve the Western dispute over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

The two sides have set July 1 as the final deadline for a comprehensive agreement.

True, but honestly this is the only part I don't like about this whole agreement. I don't want the local weapon production be overshadowed by imports.

Why ? let's forget about f-5 . Time to modify T-50