A nuclear deal with Iran looks imminent after a logjam over monitoring was broken and with foreign ministers set to rejoin US Secretary of State John Kerry in a record ninth-straight day of talks later on Sunday.
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“All of that information will be made available to Congress so that we can properly evaluate and decide what action, if any, would be appropriate for us to take”, Cardin said on This Week.
Kerry met Sunday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who has been leading the negotiations for his nation.
“It is now time to see whether or not we are able to close an agreement”, Kerry told reporters ahead of tomorrow’s deadline, saying that at present, the negotiations “could go either way”.
Over the past few days, “genuine progress” had been made, he added. Other officials in Vienna have made similar statements: The current round of talks would end with an “adoption of the agreement” but probably without a formal signing.
Answering the IAEA’s so-far unresolved questions about the possible military dimensions (PMD) of past Iranian nuclear research will be a condition for easing some sanctions on Iran if Tehran and six powers succeed in agreeing on an historic nuclear accord in Vienna, diplomats close to the talks say.
The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Britain were expected back in the Austrian capital in the evening, followed possibly on Monday by their Russian and Chinese counterparts. Work was progressing, albeit slowly, officials said. “There’s still a possibility that there will be a lack of courage and readiness in crucial points to build the bridges that we need to find to each other”.
Diplomats extended the deadline for an agreement with Iran to July 7, after it was clear that an agreement could not be reached by the end of last month.
Critics of the emerging Iran agreement have previously highlighted the historical chronology of North Korea obtaining a nuclear weapons capability when years before the US had offered concessions to try to block its atomic weapons pursuit.
If we don’t have a deal – (if there is) an unwillingness to move on (the) important issues – President Obama has always said we are prepared to walk away. It’s not what anybody wants. Then Deputy Security Adviser Ben Rhodes declared that if the United States wanted access to an Iranian military base that the USA considered “suspicious”, it could “go to the IAEA and get that inspection” because of the Additional Protocol and other “inspection measures that are in the deal”.
“This is something that the world will analyze”, Kerry said. And none of us are going to be content to do something that can’t pass scrutiny.
Appearing on a nationally broadcast interview show Sunday, Sen.
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Corker said he had spoken to Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday to urge patience. (4 a.m. ET) local time in Vienna for talks, taking just a short 30-minute break before resuming meetings in the early afternoon.
