Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday he saw a good chance of reaching a final agreement with six world powers on Iran‘s nuclear program by a June 30 deadline or a few days later, provided there was political will.
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Meanwhile, Mogherini told journalist in Brussels that she meets Zarif, Britain’s Philip Hammond, Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier and France’s Laurent Fabius to “discuss the main issues open as we are entering the last stage of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear deal“. “We always expected it would go right to the line and maybe beyond the line.
But that said, none of that implies that we would be, again, in any way taking our eye off the ball with respect to what Iran is doing as a supporter of terrorism”. It is unclear how the latest parliamentary vote in Tehran might affect these plans, which were hinged on Iran curbing its nuclear activities and accepting inspections in return for the lifting of worldwide economic sanctions.
The bill stipulates the need to lift all sanctions imposed on Iran as punishment for its nuclear program, under which leading states have suspected the Islamic republic of developing a bomb.
It is chaired by Rouhani, who is pushing hard for a nuclear deal, but is ultimately controlled by Khamenei, who will have the final word on any nuclear accord.
Iran, Iraq and Syria have agreed on a security forum in Baghdad where they hope to close ranks in the fight against terrorism, extremism and Israel, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazeli announced Monday.
The group has a June-30 deadline to make a decision over the reduction of enriched uranium and a rolling back of sanctions, though the speed of both things has provided several stumbling blocks on the rocky road to a final deal.
Iran denies any such objective and says its atomic actions are for purely peaceable clear power improvement functions that would scale back its reliance on soiled fossil fuels.
Conflicting votes in Iran’s parliament show how isolationist MPs remain active on the issue even if they favored Rouhani’s more internationalist conservatives by voting to remove itself from any supervision of any deal in favor of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council that reports to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
France has been more hawkish than some of the six powers.
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