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There’s no betting here, Margaret
SCOTT PELLEY: Margaret Brennan just sat down with the man who closed the deal.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Iran just said none of Iran’s nuclear facilities is going to shut down. That sounds like a political win for Iran’s Supreme Leader.
How do you defend that in front of Congress?
JOHN KERRY: Look, they’ll have their narrative and we’ll have ours. Important thing, Look at the facts. Look at the access that we’ll have for their facilities.
The tracking of their uranium. The oversight and accountability. Their promises that they have made with respect to this. Accountability that we will have.
MARGARET BRENNAN: How can you know that they will not cheat?
JOHN KERRY: Well, Margaret. Because we have a whole new system that we’ve designed. And they accepted and worked on to absolutely answer that question.
So that we now have a guaranteed access that if they don’t provide it the sanctions come back.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Will new sanctions from Congress torpedo this?
JOHN KERRY: New sanctions now would clearly be unnecessary given what we’ve been able to achieve. And yes it would be profoundly negative impact on this.
It would be highly irresponsible to simply break this apart by now stepping in the middle when the measure of this agreement I believe can stand the test of scrutiny.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you think that his deal is basically a long term bet on the future of Iran? I mean, what does Iran look like at the end 0f ten fifteen years?
JOHN KERRY: No. We’re not betting. We’re not betting. There’s no betting here.
Let me tell you something:
If they don’t earn the world’s confidence then we have every option available us then that is available to us today.
We’ve given up nothing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Scott, the Secretary does not know if he can turn this into a signed accord in three months.
SCOTT PELLEY: Great interview Margaret. Thanks very much.
Late today President Obama called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to brief him on the tentative deal.
And members of Congress will want to have a say in this, too.
- Tehran must reduce its capacity for uranium enrichment
- Centrifuge should be monitored for ten years.
- Israel : BadFramework Agreement.
- Multilevel system of restrictions and controls.
- West will lift its economic sanctions.
- Obama: historic.
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ANN CURRY: U.S. and Iran are trumpeting the deal Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu has surprising company. Much the the Arab world believes Iran cannot be trusted. Including Saudia Arabia. But the agreement is welcomed by many in Iran desperate to get out from under the sanctions.
Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sought to reassure the sceptics:
Mohammad Javad Zarif: “We have decided to take steps for a period of time. For that our program is and always will remain peaceful.
ANN CURRY: Expects the foreign minister a hero’s welcome when he returns home.
 
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SOURCE: Einigung in LausanneEckpunkte für Atomprogramm definiert ARD.DE
Agreement in Lausanne
Defined benchmarks for nuclear program
BERLIN: Status: 04.02.2015 22:41 clock
In the years of the Iran nuclear issue, there is an agreement: The negotiators agreed benchmarks for a nuclear deal in Lausanne. Iran is apparently off two thirds of its uranium centrifuges and is willing to undergo a rigorous monitoring. The West wants to lift the sanctions.
In the nuclear negotiations with Iran agreements, according to the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the “key parameters” for a final agreed.
Tehran must reduce its capacity for uranium enrichment, for the Fordow facility near Qom no fissile material could be registered, Mogherini said in Lausanne. In addition, the centrifuge inventory of 19,000 to over two-thirds of 6000 has to be scaled back.According to remain at Fordow also 1000 centrifuges, they should be allowed but only used for research purposes. The centrifuge uranium can be enriched – for energy, but also for nuclear weapons.
The reduction of the centrifuge should be monitored for ten years. The plan is to dilute the most enriched uranium or bring abroad. The UN Security Council to a final agreement will be submitted for approval. This should be agreed by the end of June.
Steinmeier: “We’re through”
Foreign Minister Frank-Steinmeier, Iran pledged himself long to subject its nuclear enrichment program up to 25 years a multilevel system of restrictions and controls by the International Atomic Energy Agency. In return, the West will lift its economic sanctions, but can put them in violation of rules immediately reinstated.
Steinmeier spoke of a “great and decisive step forward”.”We’re through,” he said after the week-long marathon negotiations in Switzerland. For jubilant it was still too early. “Nevertheless, with the agreed vertices we have cleared obstacles that stood an agreement for a decade in the way.”
He hopes for a final agreement to send a signal to other international crises. “It would be the first and only conflict in the Middle East, where we defuse succeed,” he said. “Maybe arising out of this dynamic and promises to defuse other dangerous crises and conflicts in the Middle East.”
Obama: agreement is “historic”
US President Barack Obama described the nuclear agreement with Iran as “historic”. The agreement is the best way to prevent that Iran secretly build a bomb. He warned Tehran: “If Iran is cheating, the world will know that.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the agreement takes into account the needs of Iran, but make while ensuring that its nuclear activities were peaceful. A solution to the nuclear conflict would contribute to peace and stability in the region.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the principle-agreement with Iran. “We have an agreement that makes it impossible for Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, closer than ever,” she says. French President Francois Hollande warned that “sanctions to be lifted, can be imposed again when the agreement is not implemented.”
Israel warns of “historic error”
Israel sees the deal as “bad Framework Agreement, which will lead to a poor and dangerous Agreement”. If on the basis of these guidelines into a definitive agreement to be agreed, this would be a “historic mistake that will make the world much more dangerous,” it said in a written statement of government officials in Jerusalem.
Negotiators and Foreign Minister of the participating countries had fought under moderation Mogherinis in Lausanne for days at a basic agreement where for more than a decade-long dispute. The talks had been extended elapsed after the expiry of a period in the early hours of Wednesday.
In the years of the Iran nuclear issue, there is an agreement: The negotiators agreed benchmarks for a nuclear deal in Lausanne. Iran is apparently off two thirds of its uranium centrifuges and is willing to undergo a rigorous monitoring. The West wants to lift the sanctions.
In the nuclear negotiations with Iran agreements, according to the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the “key parameters” for a final agreed.
Tehran must reduce its capacity for uranium enrichment, for the Fordow facility near Qom no fissile material could be registered, Mogherini said in Lausanne. In addition, the centrifuge inventory of 19,000 to over two-thirds of 6000 has to be scaled back.According to remain at Fordow also 1000 centrifuges, they should be allowed but only used for research purposes. The centrifuge uranium can be enriched – for energy, but also for nuclear weapons.
The reduction of the centrifuge should be monitored for ten years. The plan is to dilute the most enriched uranium or bring abroad. The UN Security Council to a final agreement will be submitted for approval. This should be agreed by the end of June.
Steinmeier: “We’re through”
Foreign Minister Frank-Steinmeier, Iran pledged himself long to subject its nuclear enrichment program up to 25 years a multilevel system of restrictions and controls by the International Atomic Energy Agency. In return, the West will lift its economic sanctions, but can put them in violation of rules immediately reinstated.
Steinmeier spoke of a “great and decisive step forward”.”We’re through,” he said after the week-long marathon negotiations in Switzerland. For jubilant it was still too early. “Nevertheless, with the agreed vertices we have cleared obstacles that stood an agreement for a decade in the way.”
He hopes for a final agreement to send a signal to other international crises. “It would be the first and only conflict in the Middle East, where we defuse succeed,” he said. “Maybe arising out of this dynamic and promises to defuse other dangerous crises and conflicts in the Middle East.”
US President Barack Obama described the nuclear agreement with Iran as “historic”. The agreement is the best way to prevent that Iran secretly build a bomb. He warned Tehran: “If Iran is cheating, the world will know that.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the agreement takes into account the needs of Iran, but make while ensuring that its nuclear activities were peaceful. A solution to the nuclear conflict would contribute to peace and stability in the region.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the principle-agreement with Iran. “We have an agreement that makes it impossible for Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, closer than ever,” she says. French President Francois Hollande warned that “sanctions to be lifted, can be imposed again when the agreement is not implemented.”
Israel warns of “historic error”
Israel sees the deal as “bad Framework Agreement, which will lead to a poor and dangerous Agreement”. If on the basis of these guidelines into a definitive agreement to be agreed, this would be a “historic mistake that will make the world much more dangerous,” it said in a written statement of government officials in Jerusalem.
Negotiators and Foreign Minister of the participating countries had fought under moderation Mogherinis in Lausanne for days at a basic agreement where for more than a decade-long dispute. The talks had been extended elapsed after the expiry of a period in the early hours of Wednesday.
No Iran nuclear agreement until there is white smoke
Switzerland, where representatives of six world powers are working and Iran on the nuclear issue Framework Agreement. United States: “The chance is 50% and honestly – we do not know what will happen.”
Until there’s white smoke: One day for agreement
Switzerland, where representatives of six world powers are working and Iran on the nuclear issue Framework Agreement. United States: “The chance is 50% and honestly – we do not know what will happen.
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In an interview with MSNBC network State Department spokeswoman added: “There has never been an agreement with the Iranians about it. We talked with them on a number of other ways and see if we get them consensus in the next 24 hours.” In any case, said Sharp, a transaction may be even if no agreement is reached on this issue.
Yesterday denied Iranian deputy foreign minister and the related reports said that Tehran has no intention of giving up its enriched uranium reserves and not move them to Russia. In his remarks allegedly agreed to terms Iran as part of the signing of the draft agreement in principle against Western countries, has rejected Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Arktz’i publications and emphatically made it clear that his country has no intention of giving up she could enrich uranium reserves in recent years.
According to earlier reports, Iranian officials have expressed a willingness to reduce the number of its centrifuges to less than 6,000 and committed to transfer most of its enriched uranium storage dedicated facilities in neighboring Russia.
Also, apart from differences on reducing the amount of uranium centrifuges and the removal of its territory, has not yet reached agreement on the future of the plutonium reactor in Arak and stopping the development of new-generation centrifuges. “There is no agreement yet,” said a senior negotiator Iranian agency AFP. “The issues must be resolved first.”
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Byanyhpayany Lausanne talks appeared close Fordow enrichment / sanctions for a period of time will be canceled / Obama: It’s a good agreement. * News Related to this is seen in the following section. 10: 55 Arabic countries in the Persian Gulf officials who were concerned about the possibility of Iran’s nuclear agreement, the agreement on Thursday in response to the “Lausanne” Swiss respectively, have been silent and official media in these countries also only reported short to take released have. One of the Arabic countries of the Persian Gulf announced any responses to this agreement in the coming days by the GCC and not individually be announced. Another source Arabic as well as the reactions that take place after the council agreed that Member States will fully investigate. * On the other hand, “Adel al-Jubeir” the Saudi ambassador in Washington a few hours before the nuclear deal, announced after obtained the agreement of details, you can comment about it Krd.vy said “everyone is eager to have a good deal to ban Iran from expanding Tslyhatyash program. ” 10: 32 President of America last night after the agreement achieved P5 + 1 * and Iran on its nuclear program with the property Salman Saudi king calls. The Alnshrh, while emphasizing the importance of America Barack Obama’s call for peace and security in the region, declared that “America’s support for the defense of Saudi Arabia, she is totally committed. * “On the other hand, Malik Salman of Saudi Arabia,” expressed the hope that the final binding agreement led to the strengthening of security in the region and the world. * “08: 48 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif morning arrival in Tehranasked advance.the negotiations. chief nuclear negotiator said we enter negotiations with clear objectives Thankfully we did as much as possible to reach these goals. * The head of diplomacy also noted: It is negotiable You are negotiated and agreed upon, if not to reach a final agreement on all points and the opponent gets submitted. * We are proud that we never give in, but do not have the impression that the other party to negotiate a surrender it has acceded. In discussing the advantages that we can get to Azahayy we give the work to proceed. Elegant, stating that we had a serious purpose of the talks, said: * ‘We’re still at the beginning and friends should note that We are in the beginning but in the end on the basis that it has been found, we think we will achieve these goals First, Iran’s nuclear program will continue, none of our facilities will be closed. He know that 6 of Security Council resolutions, all calling for the closure of Iran’s enrichment program, stop reactor in Arak, closing Fordow facility and many other demands were illegal. None of this needs to be practical about the power of God. Natanz enrichment will continue. * God will one day work at Natanz halt or suspension. The secretary added that the Fordow to the other side, the same name was a big risk, continues today, the debate is not closed and more than a thousand centrifuges Fordow facility will remain with all of the thousands of centrifuges two chains without nuclear material, * and hopefully in the future will work in partnership with international Fordow an advanced center for nuclear research and technology will become a new day.The term research and development will continue. The delicate continued talking about the extreme limit of 20 plus 10 plus years and long-term measures, today will enrich our only limitation for 10 years. * He said the Arak reactor, the reactor may be up A month ago, he was not as heavy water reactor name and even a reference to the so-called IR 40 is used, the nature of its heavy water will be retained in the final documentThe reactor’s heavy world will be peaceful. * Because we have no purpose other than peaceful purposes. The secretary said that we always peaceful nuclear program is peaceful and the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khamenei, will be preserved. * He said that we believed Security Council resolutions do not run like this Resolutions are illegal and unfair, said: I can assure you that the agreement will be approved by the Security Council and the Council is, in the same resolution, all previous resolutions will be canceled. Zarif said that the agreement will be implemented as a * The distance to the preparatory measures, all economic and financial sanctions will be canceled, but on the internal regulations of each country. We know and have nothing to do with the state governments responsible for what its domestic legal procedures America. * The US government has a responsibility to follow these procedures. * America is responsible for the administration of international law and would be required to lift the sanctions once. * He said: If someone speaks about the gradual elimination of sanctions, to know that, contrary to what has been approved in the past and we speak of the papers Instead of using propaganda to spread the truth will be published. * Iran’s foreign minister said that the agreement is still being developed. 05: 41, “Marie Harf,” deputy State Department spokesman says that America’s diplomatic team, had left Geneva to go to Washington * and what they have done in recent weeks, pride. He also pointed Persian date Tir 10 days ahead the deadline, saying that “we have a lot of work ahead.” * 04: 16 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement America, Lausanne agreement is an important step towards a comprehensive agreement is known, said that the agreement Final Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb, keeps. * *03: 56 Senator John McCain on his personal page on the social network Twitter posts specifically any agreement (in America) on the nuclear deal with this situation, there is no need to check the terms agreed upon by Congress more than ever felt. * The statement was published in the News of the Hill, * Clinton praised the performance of his successor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and said that efforts by Obama and John Kerry, persistent and determined and focused all their efforts to reach the conclusion that the nuclear agreement was the IS. * The statement stressed the need to traverse the terms of the agreement Lausanne Congress votes to block America and stressed that the government should not pretend that the people of America to choose from so the two options “devotion or military action” would have been. * The statement also warned that AIPAC Lausanne agreement, the Iranian government on the brink of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and drop pockets. 02: 46, “Jeb Bush.” brother of the former president a * nd Republican Senator America polls show that many chances to win in the next round of the presidential elections in America, the joy is not shown in the statement of Lausanne. He Lausanne statement as “a flawed agreement,” * Read said it will support. * 02: 27 Syed Yasir Gabriel: If America has published the text of the State Department, and health does not exist, Iran’s Foreign Ministry should immediately issued a statement denying the American context, emphasizing that such an agreement is not reached, and what has been agreed, Persian text. (Read here) * 02: 05, “Barack Obama” America’s president while riding on a plane to the “Louisville” Benjamin Netanyahu cold call and speak with him about the Lausanne Agreement. * According to the news network CBS, Obama’s call to Netanyahu assured that the statement of Lausanne, the best way to close the path toward building a nuclear weapon is. * 01: 58, “John Kerry” America’s foreign minister after a lengthy interview with Iranian negotiators, with CNN interview and the vicissitudes delicate negotiations with Congress, said his expectations. * In the interview she talks with a subtle hint and John Kerry said that because of the long history of hostile relations between America and Iran, “sometimes emotional debate and conflict there. * “Kerry went on to mention the result Lausanne negotiations, the statement said” the agreement will be based on verification and confidence “in the current rumors likely to disturb the agreement based on the vote of Congress, said:” Every existing realities Syasybazy one victim , the act irresponsibly done. * He also urged Congress to respond to the statement of Lausanne, the voice of the people of America and the experts note. His aversion to risk the collapse of the agreement made by Iranians and said: * “If Iran wants to re-negotiate the terms of the negotiations, we will leave the negotiating table and there will be no compromise.” Kerry said the new sanctions against Iran, and a profound negative impact on the nuclear agreement will be practical and highly irresponsible. * Netanyahu and his statement, he expressed serious concern about the agreement between Iran and the 5 + 1 also mention, saying: * “Iran is a greater threat to Israel, such as Dash threats and challenges at regional level.” * 01: 31 “Mohammad Javad Zarif “Minister of Foreign Affairs in their Facebook sites and asked the media not to Khbrsazyha attention. He said we were going to Tehran soon.* * The site and demand that the news media are not paying attention and do not forget Fact Sheet on the facts before it did not smell. The more delicate wrote the grace of God and with your support and prayers of our final solutions. * Over the next week we will start writing the text. * 01: 25, “John Boehner” chief nuclear deal with Iran’s America House said Obama deviation from the goal. He proclamation declared that any sanctions should be removed before the Congress of the be allowed to review the agreement with Iran. * 00: 39 a Zionist official agreement between Iran and the 5 + 1 in Lausanne reacted, saying that the “historical mistake”, the world will be far more dangerous. 00: 20 Senator Bob Menendez, senior Republican senator said that diplomats can work for 2 years on Iran’s nuclear case, * Congress has the right to consider periodically to review this Agreement. * 00: 04, “Ban Ki-moon,” the Secretary-General of Iran and the 5 + 1 group to reach a common point in Lausanne, Switzerland SOURCE: http://news.gooya.com/ JOINT STATEMENT OF IRAN : بیانیه مشترک ایران و ۱+۵: لغو مشروط تحریمهای اقتصادی
JOINT STATEMENT OF IRAN
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France Says it Wanted a Better Deal
SOURCE: AREUTZ SEVA 7
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who represented France in the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, revealed on Friday that his nation had rejected an original version of the deal reached the day before for not being “solid enough.”
In an interview with Europe 1 radio cited by Fox News, Fabius said he had tried to hold out for stronger terms, but when the Iranian delegation threatened to leave the talks he was forced to capitulate.
France wants a strong deal “to prevent other countries in the Gulf such as Saudi Arabia from embarking on nuclear proliferation,” Fabius said.
Speaking about the framework deal that was reached in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday, the foreign minister called it a “very important” step, but said “the end of the road is the end of June,” by which time a final deal is to be reached.
Fabius’s comments come after the Wall Street Journal released an in-depth report Thursday night, citing numerous current and former US representatives in the negotiations, and showing how US President Barack Obama’s administration gradually gave up on its goals during the course of the talks from September 2013.
The White House originally aimed at convincing Iran to take apart much of its nuclear infrastructure, but Iran responded firmly in the negative.
Adopting the Iranian position
One Iranian official said the nuclear program is his country’s “moon shot,” likening it to the US space program of the 1960s in symbolizing national advancement.
After that point, the report indicates the US conceded to the notion that a deal would allow Iran to keep enriching uranium, even though as Israel has pointed out none of the 17 states with peaceful nuclear programs enrich uranium, a process needed in creating nuclear bombs.
Having resigned itself to enrichment, the US focused its efforts on extending Iran’s breakout time needed to attain a nuclear weapon, with a year being settled upon as a safe enough time frame according to the report.
Therefore America made great concessions to Iran, with some of them angering their negotiating partners – particularly the French.
As a result, the deal has Iran keep all its nuclear facilities and continue enriching uranium, albeit at a reduced rate.
Experts have warned Iran will be able to continue developing its centrifuges in the deal, and threatens to be able to produce nuclear weapons in a mere three weeks.
The talk of America making concessions and adopting Iranian demands confirms the reports of an aide to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who defected, and said “he US negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal.”
Israel Should ‘Seriously Consider’ Striking Iran, Expert Says
SOURCE: ARUTZ SEVA 7
By Benny Toker and Ari Soffer
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