Iran nuclear weapons agreement  

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 we have a guaranteed access that if they don’t provide it the sanctions come back. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: Will new sanctions from Congress torpedo with 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: 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. 

ANDREA MITCHELL: If you couldn’t agree on standing up together and announcing – together – exactly what you’ve agreed on here – what makes you think that in the next three months you’re gonna actually going to come to an agreement?

JOHN KERRY: Because there’s a great deal of difference for them between what happens now and where this goes. And what can happen in the future.

ANDREA MITCHELL: You think you can get an agreement by June?

JOHN KERRY: I’m not promising anything now and nor is the President. What we’ve done is open up the opportunity.

JOHN KERRY: Andrea, we could be entering a new era with Iran. An agreement far more specific than expected. When we implement the measures there will be no sanctions against Tehran.

JOHN KERRY: Because there is a great deal of difference now than what happens. I am not promising. What we have done is open up the opportunity.

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ANN CURRY: U.S. and Iran are trumpeting today’s deal. But others are deeply sceptical. Israel called it an historic mistake. Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted:

“Any deal must significantly roll back Iran’s nuclear capabilities and stop its terrorism and aggression.”

And Israel has surprising company. Much of the Arab world agrees that Iran with it’s regional and nuclear ambitions cannot be trusted. That includes Saudia Arabia.

But the agreement is welcomed by many in Iran desperate to get out from under years of crippling economic sanctions.

Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sought to reassure the sceptics that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are strictly peaceful.

Mohammad Javad Zarif: “We have decided to take steps for a period of time to assure anybody who has concerns our program is peaceful and always will remain peaceful.

Iran’s foreign minister and his team expect to be greeted with a hero’s welcome when they return home tomorrow.

RAW TRANSLATION

SOURCE: Einigung in LausanneEckpunkte für Atomprogramm definiert

ARD.DE

Agreement in Lausanne

 Defined benchmarks for nuclear program

BERLIN: 04.02.2015

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.”

 

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.

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. 

State Department spokesman Marie Sharp said today (Monday) that “the chances of getting the outline is 50% “and added:” Frankly, we do not know what will happen if we do not reach it. “

Sharp went on to refer to one of the points of contention, according to reports, the Iranian powers – the transfer of enriched uranium out of the Islamic Republic. “There is no need to do so to reach for a year’s break-bomb”.

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.”