“From the initial reports received, it is already possible to say that this agreement is a historic mistake for the world”, Netanyahu said. Iran is prevented for at least 10 years from developing the capability to build a nuclear weapon, helping to stabilize a region that needs no more instability.
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Israel rejected the deal immediately and plans to lobby the Congress to reject it. In a show of national unity, Yitzhak Herzog, the leader of the opposition Zionist Union party, is coming to Washington next week to lobby against the deal.
Jubeir met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday, but departed without stating if he endorsed the deal, only suggesting the needs for regular inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities.
The agreement entrusts the verification responsibility to the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations body that has, more or less effectively, monitored compliance with nuclear non-proliferation.
Khani: Exactly. Maybe there are those in the United States that expect Iran to change its policies after these negotiations, and after the nuclear deal. In return, Iran gets out from under crushing economic sanctions.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday hit back at the deal’s critics, saying they were at odds with “99 percent” of the world and had failed to offer any real alternative.
“We have unprecedented ability to see what they are doing”. Talk to us about those issues as well. “Through war. Those are the options”.
Obama has vowed to veto any effort to block the deal and although he faces a tough challenge in the Republican-controlled Congress, he is expected to prevail.
Beyond referring to the removal of “aviation sanctions“, Rouhani did not elaborate but Iran’s Transportation Minister Abbas Akhoundi has said there have been talks with Boeing and Airbus and that initial agreements will likely come in a few months’ time.
In a boost to the agreement, more than 100 former U.S. ambassadors, including the ranking diplomat taken hostage in Tehran in 1979 when students stormed the American embassy, praised it as a “landmark”.
Javid Zarif said in an Eid message Friday that he hopes the nuclear deal could bring about a better relationship overseas.
Khamenei said in a televised speech that USA policy in the Middle East runs counter to Tehran’s strategy and that Iran will continue to support its allies in the Middle East including the Lebanese, Hezbollah, Palestinian resistance groups and the Syrian government.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan underlined that importance of Vienna agreement on improvement of Tehran-Ankara relations, IRNA reported.
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An arch conservative with the last word on high matters of state, Khamenei repeatedly used the phrase “whether this text is approved or not”, implying the accord has yet to win definitive backing from Iran’s factionalised political establishment…
