Global Atomic Energy Agency director general Yukiya Amano leaves the Palais Coburg Hotel on Saturday.
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The United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany have reportedly agreed with Iran on a mechanism that would allow sanctions to snap back in place should Tehran violate any final nuclear agreement.
“With the cooperation from Iran, I think we can issue a report by the end of the year on the… clarification of the issues related to possible military dimensions”, Amano told reporters after his talks in Tehran earlier this week.
A preliminary agreement clinched on April 2 in Lausanne, Switzerland said the PMD would have to be addressed under any final accord between Iran and the six powers.
Before any mention of the current negotiations with Iran in the survey, two in three Americans say they would support the use of USA troops, in principle, “to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons” (67%). Negotiators for the group have been working in Vienna for the past week, toward a self-imposed deadline of Tuesday.
He briefed Kerry Friday about his trip, but USA officials refused to discuss the substance of their talks.
“We have to see that they are getting the access they need”, one senior administration official said in May. “There are literally hundreds of small decisions that have to be made in the context of negotiating agreement like this”, some of which have already been approved at the highest levels.
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency said Saturday he hopes to complete his controversial investigation of Iran’s past nuclear activities by December, potentially removing a key obstacle to completion of world powers’ sweeping nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.
Deputy Foreign Ministers Abbass Araqchi and Majid Takht-Ravanchi and Deputy European Union Foreign Policy Adviser Helga Schmid held talks for hours in the morning.
Incidentally, the CCGA Wednesday released another poll-on public attitudes toward relations with Cuba-which didn’t get much media attention, probably because it coincided with Obama’s announcement that the US and Cuba will re-open embassies in their respective countries later this month. Kerry and Zarif returned here a week ago for what officials have characterized as the “endgame” of the talks.
The parties have given themselves until July 7 to reach agreement.
But Davenport said Iran now has a strong incentive to cooperate. He called for an end to “coercion and pressure” through economic sanctions. If the documents arrive after July 10, that period increases to 60 days.
Amano maintained that with cooperation of Iran he could present a report on assessment of PMD related issues. Iran has committed to implementing the IAEA’s “additional protocol” for inspections and monitoring as part of an accord, but the rules don’t guarantee worldwide monitors can enter any facility including sensitive military sites, so making it hard to investigate allegations of secret work on nuclear weapons. Tehran says its programme is meant only to generate power and for other peaceful purposes.
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“Our red lines include permission for visiting the military centers and interview with nuclear scientists as well as the points explicitly stated by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution”, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khameinei, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the parliamentary national security commission, told Iran’s Fars News agency Saturday.
