“I can not make any promises for this evening or tomorrow evening, but there is hope”, he said. “Hopeful”. Other attendees at meeting not Identified.
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In return Iran will be granted staggered relief from painful sanctions, although the six powers – the so-called P5+1 of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russian Federation and China – insist on the option of reimposing the restrictions if Tehran breaches the agreement. But the debate about how much access his experts should be given has publicly continued, with top Iranian officials saying military sites and Iranian nuclear scientists would be off limits to IAEA experts.
No deal could be “perfect” but “conditions are already in place for a good agreement”, he told reporters as he arrived for discussions in the Austrian capital, speaking through an interpreter.
Ongoing talks with Iran concerning its nuclear program are shadowed by the specter of previous failures.
After more than two weeks of intense political haggling in Vienna aimed at ensuring Iran does not get a nuclear bomb, diplomats said an agreement was tantalisingly close. He reiterated Israel’s opposition to the deal. One area that is bound to be scrutinized is that restrictions on Iran’s nuclear pursuits may be eliminated after 10 or 15 years.
“We believe that there cannot and should not be further delay”.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has cautioned that “major issues” remain to be resolved, and comments from both senior Republican and Democrat Senators on Sunday suggested that any final deal would also face tough scrutiny in the US Congress. “This is a 100-page document, after all”. Diplomats had earlier said that there was also progress within the Vienna negotiations on the issue. British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond returned to London on Sunday night, but was planning to be back in Vienna on Monday.
“French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who cancelled a trip to Africa to stay at the talks, said: ‘I hope we are finally entering the final phase of these marathon negotiations”.
“We are working hard, but a deal tonight is simply logistically impossible”, the Iranian official said, noting that the agreement will run roughly 100 pages.
Although diplomats said that there could still be some “last-minute surprises” by one of the parties to the talks or squabbling over the language of the final text, they stated that only technical issues had to be resolved, reported The Guardian. We need some more time. It said Khamenei told university students in Tehran to be “prepared to continue the struggle against arrogant powers”. America is the quintessential arrogant power.
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“After the agreement, we’ll have Iran on the nuclear threshold and continuing to sponsor terrorism”.
