Iran 'bound' to complete talks by March 31

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US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif stand with Ali Akbar Salehi, the vice president of Iran for Atomic Energy and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, far left, and US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, far right, on Feb. 22, 2015. (photo by State Department) 

Iran 'bound' to complete talks by March 31

Nuclear negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) will be completed by March 31, says Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, a spokesman for President Hassan Rouhani’s administration.

Summary⎙ Print Iranian media outlets believe that progress was made in the nuclear talks and that the nuclear talks are reaching a conclusion.

Author Arash KaramiPosted February 26, 2015

Nobakht, who's considered close to the president and arguably has a larger role within the administration than the first vice president, was asked by reporters about the significance of the presence of Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Hossein Fereydoon, brother and adviser to Rouhani, at the nuclear negotiations in Geneva between Iranian and American officials. “This time in the negotiations, from the viewpoint of time, we are bound to conclude the negotiations by March 31,” Nobakht said. “Of course, not just at the level of general agreements but also on the specifics we have to reach results.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham previously was criticized for suggesting that at the end of March there would be a political “understanding” rather than an “agreement.” It seems now, given Nobakht’s comments, there appears to be a push by the administration and negotiators to have a complete deal by the end of March.

The March 31 deadline is a sort of soft deadline that is part of the November 2014 interim deal agreement, and also the deadline that members of Congress have reportedly negotiated with President Barack Obama before moving forward with new Iran sanctions. As for the Iran side, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on the nuclear program, has specified that once an agreement is made, itnot be made as a multistep deal but rather a complete deal with all the issues resolved.

Despite cautious statements by negotiators, some reformist Iranian media seem to believe significant steps were taken at the latest round of talks that may show a deal is close.

Iranian analyst Saba Zanganeh wrote in Shargh Daily: “Sometimes the sides talk of the collapse of the negotiations, while in the heart of the negotiations, the final consultations are taking place.” He saw the firm statements by both Iranians and Americans about their red lines and demands as “techniques” and “tools” that all negotiators use to maximize the concessions from the other side.

Zanganeh said the presence of Salehi and US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz “is undoubtedly the entering of the negotiations in a new phase.” He added that one can deduce that there is a general agreement and some of the specifics have been resolved and that only “a few issues remain.” He said the best way to understand the negotiations is to think of it as a train before it reaches it’s destination, in that this is the moment it usually reaches peak speed and that signs show a “good deal is more likely.”

In Arman Daily, Reza Raisi wrote that the expression, “There is something for sure, that rumors exist,” should be applied when observing the various international reactions and statements from world leaders about the nuclear negotiations. He said the “speed and urgency of the consultations” and the “statements [by officials] indicates that there was progress made in the negotiations.” 

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Obama is obliged to return to Congress before any agreement with Iran
 

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Posted       28/02/2015 08:58 AM

 

 The members approved the Senate a bill late Friday night, it is necessary to review the Congress of any agreement with Iran on its nuclear program.

 

"Review of Iran's nuclear agreement Law" and President Barack Obama will be required to submit to Congress the text of any agreement within 5 days of reaching a final agreement with Iran.

The law also banned on Obama to suspend or cancel the sanctions on Iran approved by Congress for a period of 60 days after reaching an agreement.

Republican Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which this proposal is adopted with Senator Bob Menendez largest Democrats on the Committee and others, "it is important to maintain the integrity sanctions Congress."

He added that the bill creates a "responsible review mechanism would give Congress a chance to approve or disapprove the agreement before the administration could try to cancel the sanctions."

Was approved by the Foreign Relations Committee, a new draft law for sanctions on Iran this month, but the House of Representatives wait around for talks between Iran and the six countries, including the United States until the deadline on March 24, before the transfer of the bill to the full Senate.

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Obama's veto to allow Congress to review Iran's nuclear agreement

9:00: 03/01/2015

 

Khandan - The White House announced that President Barack Obama will use the right of veto against a bill approved by the Senate and allow Congress to review any agreement with Iran on its nuclear capabilities. She said Bernadette Meehan, spokeswoman for the National Security Council of the White House that "the president was clear that he now is not the time to leave Congress legally extra on Iran. If you sent this bill to the president would veto it. " The United States seeks and five other major countries to negotiate a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear program in return for easing some of the economic sanctions. It will be necessary, "Review of agreement Law Iran's nuclear "display text of any agreement to Congress within five days of reaching a final agreement with Iran. The law also banned on Obama to suspend or cancel the sanctions on Iran approved by Congress for a period of sixty days after reaching an agreement. The Meehan said the United States "must give our negotiators a better chance of success rather than the complexity of their efforts."

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The too little, too late presidency

Obama’s temporizing has been his foreign-policy trademark, from Iran and Syria to Libya and Ukraine.

Foreign and Defense Policy

President Barack Obama speaks during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel following their meeting at the White House in Washington February 9, 2015. Reuters

With the supposed cease-fire in eastern Ukraine a mirage, the White House can soon be expected to return to its public pondering of whether to supply Kiev’s military with lethal aid to fend off the Russian-backed insurgency. If President Obama finally does decide to send antitank weapons and other hardware the Ukrainians have pleaded for, it will be only the latest example of the administration’s too-little-too-late temporizing.

Indecisiveness is the predominant characteristic of how Mr. Obama executes U.S. national-security policy. Undoubtedly there are other influences: ideological blinders; mistrust of America’s presence in the world; inadequate interest, knowledge, focus and resolve. But in implementing his policies, good or bad, the president has shown that equivocating is what he does best.

Mr. Obama’s approach is the polar opposite of the “energy in the executive” that Alexander Hamilton advocated in Federalist No. 70, especially in foreign policy. The unitary presidency, not Congress, possesses “decision, activity, secrecy and dispatch” so necessary for high statecraft. This president’s record of dithering is long and depressing.

In June 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ’s rigged presidential election in Iran spurred massive, peaceful protests. For several days Mr. Obama declined to address the ayatollahs’ unleashing of the Basiji militia against innocent civilians, prompting dissenters to make signs asking, “Are you with us or against us?” The Revolutionary Guards were certainly against them—and the Green Movement was brutally repressed. By the time Mr. Obama finally spoke out, haltingly, the moment had passed, and the Islamic Revolution had stabilized.

Similar hesitation applies to Mr. Obama’s handling of Tehran’s nuclear-weapons program. He has relied on negotiations and sanctions to transform Iran’s weapons infrastructure into a “peaceful” program, but this approach has consistently failed. To be effective, sanctions must be comprehensive (targeting only named individuals or firms is easily circumvented); universally accepted (not true here, as China and Russia repeatedly demonstrate); and vigorously enforced. The Obama administration’s episodic, negligently enforced Iran sanctions meet none of these tests.

President Obama chronically disregards the integral relationship between diplomacy and force. His foreign-policy mantra that “all options are on the table” regarding Iran proves the point. What from some presidents might sound ominous, from Mr. Obama sounds pro forma.

Colin Powell as secretary of state once advised British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw that “if you want to bring the Iranians around, you have to hold an ax over their heads.” Instead, Mr. Obama is holding a selfie stick over his own. The U.S. has done too little on Iran, and now we are nearly too late to stop the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Regarding North Korea’s nuclear program, Mr. Obama hasn’t acted at all. Pyongyang has had six years to advance its nuclear program and ballistic-missile efforts. In recent months U.S. and South Korean commanders have voiced fears that North Korea is near to miniaturizing its weapons and mounting them on ICBMs capable of reaching the U.S. West Coast.

In Syria, whatever slim chance there was of empowering a “moderate” anti-Assad opposition when the civil war began four years ago disappeared while Mr. Obama dithered. His declaration of a “red line” regarding Bashar Assad ’s use of chemical weapons in Syria might have been a sign of forceful policy; it quickly faded.

In Iraq, the president’s inability or unwillingness to reach a “status of forces” agreement resulted in the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. forces, thereby leading directly to increased Iranian influence in Baghdad. The Islamic State terrorist hordes rose almost inexorably from the ashes of al Qaeda in Iraq, and its increasing control over vast portions of Syria and Iraq followed. Today, Mr. Obama’s feeble proposed authorization for military force against Islamic State should top the list of prime too-little-too-late exhibits.

Libya’s collapse after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi and the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi further show Mr. Obama’s unwillingness to see the growing radical-Islamist threat. He didn’t handle the threat adequately before the consulate attack, didn’t act decisively during the attack and, most egregiously, failed to retaliate or exact retribution afterward. Yemen’s current disintegration is a tragic reprise of the Libya debacle.

Mr. Obama’s sanctions-focused response to Russian aggression in Ukraine has been similarly piecemeal and ineffective. Authoritarian regimes are not impressed by hardships imposed on mere citizens; the real peril to Vladimir Putin comes from collapsing global oil prices. If the U.S. had supplied weapons to Ukraine early, it might have deterred Moscow’s aggressiveness, preventing or minimizing the conflict, thereby avoiding the slow-motion partition of Ukraine now under way. Today is too late.

Note also that the leader of the West has been absent from negotiations over Ukraine’s fate. Instead, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has the initiative—ruling out military aid, seeking a deal with Russia—largely because she assesses accurately that Mr. Obama will do nothing consequential to constrain Moscow.

Nowhere is Ukraine more closely watched than in Beijing, where Mr. Obama’s weakness and irresolution are empowering China to make ever-broader territorial claims in the East and South Seas, to suppress dissent in Hong Kong and to turn a covetous eye on Taiwan. Beijing is surely calculating that as U.S. leadership falters in Europe, so it will in the Pacific.

Why is Mr. Obama unwilling to act swiftly and decisively in foreign affairs? The most basic reason is his deterministic view of an “arc of history” bending inevitably to outcomes he finds ideologically desirable. And since a critical element of his ideology is that America’s presence in the world contributes to problems as much as solving them, the president’s policy of withdrawal and passivity is no surprise.

Failing to act when it could make a difference only feeds the appetites of aggressors. Europe acquiesced as Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland, undertook Anschluss with Austria, annexed the Sudetenland and subsequently destroyed Czechoslovakia. When Poland’s turn came, these prior hesitations had convinced Hitler that he enjoyed impunity. He told his generals weeks before invading: “Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.” Imagine what our adversaries today think of us.

Mr. Bolton is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad” (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

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Tehran allude to suspend its nuclear work for ten years

 

07-03-2015 01:30 PM

 

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Accompanied by growing concern over Iran's expansion with the rhythm of the nuclear negotiations between the great powers and Iran, which is supposed to be decisive point up later this month, and either failed or succeeded, these negotiations have rocked the historic relations and strategy between Washington and its allies in the Middle East when it detects conduct secret deals with Tehran and now on arrival major concessions stage, especially with the emergence of the role of the Revolutionary Guard in the war on Daash in Iraq. 
hinted Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the end of one of the most important ongoing nuclear negotiations rounds in Geneva that his country would accept a freeze some of its nuclear activities for ten years, despite rejected his proposal to US President Barack Obama in toto. and Zarif said in an interview with the US, "CNN's" station offered by the network, on Friday, on Tehran's readiness to accept the suspension of its nuclear program for a decade, said that "it depends on how you define this matter." He explained that if "We have an agreement, we are ready to accept certain restrictions for a certain period of time, but I'm not prepared to negotiate on the air." This comes just hours after Iran's announcement on the lips of officials rejection of the proposal by the White House regarding the freezing of its nuclear program, as reported by Iranian media quoted About Zarif as saying Tuesday that "Obama's demand for a partial suspension for a period of 10 years is not acceptable." The US president said in an exclusive statement to "Reuters" Monday that Iran's commitment to suspend verifiable nuclear activities are sensitive to the period of a decade, at least in order to conclude nuclear deal "good." The decline in the Iranian position to put a major question marks according to analysts on the concessions accepted by both parties, however, observers of US-Iranian relations assert that Djiostratjah interests were behind the acceptance of such transaction is to achieve gains on the ground, despite the political disharmony between them since the fall of the Shah's regime in 1979. Observers believe that the coronation of nuclear negotiations, the international acknowledgment of the right of Iran to keep a ready-made nuclear capabilities to manufacture nuclear weapons, with the postponement of implementation will pour first in the Iranian regime's interest to lift the sanctions, which strained the economy, but others argue that the decline in the situation that is but to accept tactical as it is unlikely to prevent Iran practically from continuing its nuclear activities. In the midst of it, Vdrica Mgrena responsible European Union foreign policy drew after a conference held in Latvia's foreign policy it is possible to conclude a good agreement in the nuclear negotiations with Iran. conducted Zarif American counterpart John Kerry talks this week in the Swiss city of Montreux, in order to reach an agreement political framework by the end of March, but some obstacles still hinder the convergence of views between the negotiators, despite hints number of Western diplomats that there is hope in achieving consensus. It seems that the President The US has achieved what he aspires to in its war against al Daash in Iraq and Syria, as it has become significantly dependent on Iranian forces without enter the military alliance awaiting authorization from Congress to enter the wilderness of American troops to fight the extremists there, so I gave Iran concessions behind the scenes to the belief that everyone emerge victorious in the forest crisis plaguing the region. It is expected to conclude negotiators agreement by the 24 of this month, where the Great Powers hopes to reach a framework agreement before signing a "definitive" agreement by the end of June. It is believed Western politicians that Obama give up too much to Iran, It paves her to be a strong regional power in exchange for limitations on its nuclear program, and that his administration stresses at every opportunity on the existence of common interests with them in defeating Daash which made ​​the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said earlier that the direct military intervention of Iran in Iraq It may be "a positive thing." counts Tehran on what it calls the political will of the great powers in order to make "tough choices" in the field of nuclear activity, especially with the deterioration of living conditions in Iran due to the harsh ban. In contrast, the Gulf states allied with the United States feel especially Saudi Arabia concerned of the benefits that would accrue to Iran of any agreement to end the ongoing conflict in years, over its nuclear ambitions. However, Kerry tried to reassure Gulf states during his visit to Riyadh Thursday that Washington is not seeking a "major swap" with Iran, he said that the nuclear deal with Tehran will serve interests. In a speech in the US Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran is a fatal mistake, but soon Zarif replied that his speech did not have any effect on the negotiations. In a separate context, looking Council US Senate Tuesday a bill known as the "review of Iran's nuclear agreement for 2015 Act" as states that Obama displays the nuclear deal "expected" with Iran over Congress with preventing a suspension of sanctions for a period of two months from the date of the agreement. It supports the project a major group of Republicans and Democrats in the Council, but it has become a topic of tiff party after the Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell said he "will accelerate the pace of the study of the bill with a vote in the next week." President Obama is able to keep the agreement with Iran canines Republican Congress and that he could sign the agreement without congressional approval them, as has the right to exercise veto on any new sanctions proposed by the Congress. suspect the United States and its allies, especially Israel, despite the estrangement between the two governments, that Iran is exploiting a civilian nuclear program as a cover to develop the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, while Iran denies those allegations.

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Washington Shopping alliance of necessity with Iran

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Report: Victor Shalhoub - Washington, 
in his letter last October to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, hinted US President, Barack Obama, to the possibility of US-Iranian cooperation in fighting al Daash, if it agrees got a deal on nuclear program. 
Word of stimulus then find translated now openly on the ground, either to speed up the deal, either because such cooperation part of it after that became just around the corner from its declaration. 
The process is ongoing military to liberate the city of Tikrit from Daash involving the 'Iranian-backed militias led by General Qassem Soleimani', by rolling in Washington. 
Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dampsa not only admits publicly to this post, but also prepared by the 'positive' »condition that the 'do not lead to inflame sectarian conflict!'. 
It was like this Altagej not a matter of a foregone conclusion, but the administration is moving in this option as long as it is exempt from the increase in the number of troops in Iraq, to be marketed as a fait accompli irreplaceable for the salvation of Daash. 
earlier cooperation 
and reasoning justified for this option, that Washington had already cooperated with Iran in Afghanistan, and the result was positive, but goes theorizing in this regard to liken happening now in Iraq in alliance with the Soviets in World War II Nazi to face, from the door to the necessity of its provisions without the mean time the relationship between opposites. 
But this comparison is not equated with reality, cooperation with Iran through silence on deepening its role in Iraq, prior to the existence of Daash and occupation of parts of Iraq, then you is a candidate, according to this logic, to withdraw the Syrian arena later under the pretext of chasing Daash? .. And if that happens In return for any price? 
supporters of Iran 
to strengthen Iran's role in this image explicit his supporters in Washington, presented from the perspective being that the success of the US confrontation with Daash it depends to a large extent, especially as it is an alternative ground troops is not an American in the White House Ward approval. 
But at the same time raised many special congressional views fears, was quick to warn of the consequences of this row orientation that leads to one of two things: either the Iraqi civil war raging, and either more 'Iraq handed over to Iran. " 
There is a special apprehension among Republicans, than to be in it swaps with Iran in the nuclear deal, following indicators on the near completion despite continuing talk about the important obstacles remain in the way, and this is the theme revolves around a heated debate in Washington. 
There is an attempt in Congress to pass a law that would require management America should be displaying any it nuclear deal to gain approval as a condition to put it into effect. 
Obama's threat of 
US President, Barack Obama, is threatening a veto over any law of this kind, arguing that such a deal if she got an international agreement - Iranian and not an American-Iranian, and therefore do not require congressional approval. 
and stands alongside US Alamarh parallel team of actors political and economic window pro circuit for a reasonable settlement with Iran, as the Administration on the possibility of marketing the deal bet if achieved, on the basis of presented as an alternative to the military option that you know that there is no ability for the Americans about it, and that Congress will not address them strongly in this regard, the eve of the presidential election campaign. 
In any case, the Obama administration seems to be going in the footsteps of the Bush administration's manipulation of Iraq. 
dependence on Iran 
saw newspaper 'The New York Times' of America, that the American strategy to overcome the Daash in Iraq increasingly dependent on Iran. 
The newspaper commented on denying American officials to the presence of coordinating with Iran that it 'may be true technically, but the war planners are closely watching the Iranian war against Daash through a variety of channels, including talks over the radio waves' .

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U.S., France 'on same page' over Iran, want stronger deal

BY ARSHAD MOHAMMED AND JOHN IRISH

PARIS Sat Mar 7, 2015 1:20pm EST

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(Reuters) - The United States and France sought on Saturday to play down any disagreements over nuclear talks with Iran, saying they both agreed the accord now under discussion needed to be strengthened.

"We are on the same page," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters after talks with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris. "If we didn’t think that there was further to go, as Laurent said, we’d have had an agreement already," Kerry added.

"The reason we don’t have an agreement is, we believe there are gaps that have to be closed. There are things that have to be done to further strengthen this. We know this."

The aim of the negotiations is to persuade Iran to restrain its nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions that have crippled its economy. Iran, a major oil exporter, wants the sanctions scrapped swiftly, the powers only in phases.

France's Fabius said on Friday commitments offered by Iran in the nuclear talks with six world powers do not go far enough and more work needed to be done, notably on what he called "volume, checks and duration".

On Saturday, he made clear that by volume he meant the number and quality of centrifuges Iran might be allowed to operate under any deal. By checks, he meant an inspection and verification regime to ensure Iran does not violate the deal.

"There is still work to be done," said Fabius, who was also hosting his British, German and EU counterparts in Paris.

France, a U.N. Security Council veto-holder, has long held out for strict terms, linking any loosening of international sanctions on Iran's oil-based economy to commitments by Tehran to demonstrate that its nuclear work is as peaceful as it says.

The discovery in 2013 that the United States was holding secret talks with Iran was an opportunity for Paris, by saying 'no' to a deal, to assert itself internationally and to rebuke Washington for backing down on bombing Syria as punishment for using chemical arms.

It also helped France cement new commercial ties with Gulf Arab states hostile to Iran.

 

"SOLID AGREEMENT" SOUGHT

"It is a multilateral negotiation, but we want to make sure that our positions are aired," said Fabius, who stressed several times the need for a "solid agreement".

U.S. officials privately bristle at what they sometimes see as France’s effort to insert itself into the diplomacy on Iran and other issues. Some other diplomats close to the talks say Washington is rushing into a deal with Iran.

From the outside, it appears as if the negotiations are fundamentally a U.S.-Iranian bilateral discussion, with the other nations briefed and brought in periodically.

As well as the United States and France, the other world powers involved in the Iran negotiations are Britain, China, Germany and Russia.

Kerry this week held three days of talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.

He plans to meet Zarif again on March 15 ahead of talks with all sides aimed at sealing some form of understanding by the end of March before a final deal in June.

"The next couple of weeks are crucial," said EU policy chief Federica Mogherini.

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White House: Republicans position of a nuclear Iran, "biased"

 

 

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Description White House, on Monday, the position of the Republican US Senate about the Iranian nuclear file as "biased."

The White House said in a statement today that the Republicans and they send a warning to Tehran from the signing of the nuclear deal for the message that he would not become permanent only after the approval of the US Congress.

The letter came as a kind of pressure to weaken the ability of US President Barack Obama on Washington's foreign policy management, and so on, according to the San presidential spokesman Josh Earnest.

Israeli Prime Minister gave a speech in Congress, where Washington and the West warned of signing a deal with Tehran over its nuclear program, to coincide with the Group of comments (5 +1) and Tehran reached near the nuclear deal.

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Iran between the money and the Bomb

D. Mohammed Bh

MARCH 11, 2015

 

There is much talk today about the features of an agreement on the peaceful settlement of Iran's nuclear program between the major powers and Iran. Under the agreement, Iran give up the dream of the bomb, in return for the gradual lifting of any or all of the sanctions. 
The equation is clear to the interlocutors. Iran decided some time ago that they can not get now a nuclear bomb, and that the money for her now more important than nuclear weapons. 
Learn Tehran that the bomb would not significantly alter the power equation, for the simple reason, which is that Iran will not be able to use the bomb if acquired, because the neighborhood Iran either originally armed the bomb before they owned, or that Setslh soon after Iran's possession of her. 
You can not be the goal of Iran from getting behind the bomb is thrown at Israel, because the real animosity is not between them and Israel, but between them and the Arabs, who covered the hostility to them slogans hostility to Israel, and will not throw Tehran bomb on Tel Aviv, because Israel has hundreds of these bomb. Iran they want to bomb strategic and political achievement, in order to threaten the Arab neighborhood, and dominate it completely by the illusions of historical empire will enter Iran in the wars will not reap them, but economic and political defeat in the near term. 
overlooked Iran party from acquiring the bomb, albeit temporarily, because they want money, not to feed the people who live more than half are below the poverty line, according to international reports, but to finance the adventures of men's Revolutionary Guards in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, to resolve open battles there, as envisaged by the Revolutionary Guards commanders. 
With the presence of international reports and official terrifying situation Internal in Iran, but that the system lives on a kind of «Media numbness», who is trying for a way to escape from the face of these problems. Iranian treasury exhausted, official reports talk about an outbreak of a serious social disease in Iranian society by economic need. 
The talk on a daily basis for high crime rates, and rates the huge trade and drug abuse among men and women, even among children, and the prevalence of sexual crimes, and the predominance of corruption, and the millions of unemployed youth for work, and others who are waiting for the first opportunity to escape from the big prison standing on his door clergy, and boiling the popular rising in non-Persians from other peoples in Iran, such as Arabs, Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis, not to mention the lack of civil and religious freedoms for the people of other denominations, such as the year, who offers their children almost daily to Almqasal charges ready, is «fight Allah and His Messenger.» All of this is a terrifying day of the regime in Tehran, which has been for decades Yemeni people to live a beautiful under the banner of Mahdism justice that does not oppress beneath one, because it has the support of «Imam of the time», absentee held the flag of Khomeini and Khamenei after him by the Iranian political belief. 
trying to Iran, of course, Escape from these internal problems worsening, Bajtrah revolutionary speech recently turned into an imperial speech, is nothing more than intimidating the media about on the Red Sea coast and the Bab el Mandeb and the Mediterranean Iranian power, talk about battleships Iran on the coast of Latin America, and the invasion of America in their own backyard, and talk about Qassem Soleimani which is found in all the battles, and leads all the victories, as he is preparing to take pictures somewhere and then disappears, leaving the fighters to their fate, then the media talk about Iran's control over all shores of the Gulf, and talk about naval maneuvers and air and ground, and talk of generations new, and the names of new weapons produced by Iran, not to mention the aircraft has fabricating images, Iranian and monkeys that have gone in missiles into space, before the imaging experts able to expose these images, which have been installed in the workshop pictures in Tehran. Then talk of a recent President Hassan Rohani adviser on Iran, which has become a great empire, with its capital in Iraq or Baghdad. 
All this media flour will not cover the bitter truth to be faced by the regime in the post, and of that squandered billions of dollars of Iranian power on sectarian wars in the region, and on programs nuclear arms was forced to stop after that spent by the blood and sweat and money Iranians a lot. 
The Iranian regime realized that millions of Iranians at home will not forgive his foreign adventures food on their children's account, Fastmat in order to get the money to resolve the external battles, according to his vision, to convince his people, the usefulness These battles that left out the system for the fact that it will not be solved, no matter how spent the money, effort and time, for the simple reason that such battles are not solved only by Earthlings who are fighting in defense of their land, and to all who came to them who they shop Tehran to fight in Syria and others under the pretext of defense for the holy sites will have to leave sooner or later. 
says a Western journalist Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, said that Iran is seeking from behind the nuclear program to build a bomb, and smiling Zarif Basma trying to guess as Basma subtle, says «We have a fatwa from Imam Khomeini deny access to arms Nuclear ». Fatwa on occasion, and talking about them is essential, because Iran is in the process of delivery by depriving it of the bomb, which dreamed of a long, despite Khomeini that Iran will find a solution, if I could bomb, also found a solution to his fatwa in the legalization of Salman Rushdie before.

* Yemeni writer of the family «Quds Al-Arabi»

D. Mohammed Bh

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Iranians make their choice to engage with dignity - FM

20.03.2015 15:04   28 minute(s) ago

 

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Iranians have already made their choice: engage with dignity, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to US President Barack Obama's video message to the Iranian people, RIA Novosti reported with the reference to IRNA agency March 20.

"It's high time for the US and its allies to chose: pressure or agreement," he said.

In his address to people and leaders of Iran on the occasion of Novruz holiday, President Obama said this year represented the "best opportunity in decades" for Iran and the US to improve relations.

"The two sides have already complied with the mutual agreement," President Obama said.

President Obama called Iranian people as "heirs of ancient civilization" and congratulated on the Novruz holiday. The president expressed the hope that Iran and the US will improve relations.

Iran and the P5 1 (the US, the UK, Russia, China, France and Germany) are aiming to reach a political understanding by March 31 in the run-up to a comprehensive deal by July 1 deadline.

After the sides failed to meet the November 24, 2014 deadline they also extended the Geneva nuclear deal, which was signed in November 2013 to provide Iran with some sanctions relief in exchange for Tehran agreeing to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities.

The last round of talks between Iran and the P5 1 was held in the Swiss town of Montreux in the first week of March.

The US and its Western allies suspect Iran of developing a nuclear weapon, something that Iran denies.

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Washington: It's time to take "tough decisions" with Iran

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US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that talks with Iran on reining in its nuclear program has made ​​'real progress' and it was time to take 'tough decisions' in order to reach an agreement framework. 
The news agency 'Reuters' news story, I followed (news) today , for Kerry to say: 'Do not rush things, we realize that the important decisions must be taken now does not become easier with the passage of time.' 
He added, that he 'had not yet reached the end line, but we have the opportunity to try to achieve the command correctly, it is a matter of political will and take a difficult decision, and we all have to choose wisely in the coming days. ' 
Kerry said he 'will meet with his counterparts Europeans in London later on Saturday to discuss how to resolve the outstanding issues with Iran, will return to Lausanne this week' to make a decision on whether a deal is possible ' .

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Dulyat
Mon, 30/03/2015 - 12:00

 


Preliminary agreement to settle between Iran and major powers

 

 

 Diplomats involved in the ongoing negotiations in Switzerland yesterday announced that Iran and the six countries reached a preliminary agreement on the essential elements of the settlement stipulates that Iran drastically limit its nuclear activities. One said Iran had agreed "to some extent" to reduce the number of centrifuges has more than two-thirds and the transfer of most of its nuclear material abroad.

Arab World
Mon, 30/03/2015 - 12:29

Iran and the six powers racing against time to resolve differences to conclude a nuclear deal

 

 

Lausanne - joined the foreign ministers of France, Germany and minister to the American and Iranian foreign ministers on Saturday to help break the deadlock in the nuclear negotiations, while approaching Iran and the six powers to reach an agreement framework of two or three pages may essentially a long-term agreement.

The aim of the ongoing negotiations for nearly 18 months is to reach an agreement stops whereby Iran's sensitive nuclear activities for a period of at least ten years in exchange for the lifting of sanctions that the ultimate goal is to be the end of nuclear confrontation with Iran has been going on 12 years with the West and reduce the risk of the outbreak of war in the Middle East.

There are US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Lausanne, Switzerland, a few days ago to try to reach a framework agreement by the purpose March 31 deadline, has held a number of rounds of talks on Saturday.

While the two sides approached the outline of the agreement, there are still deep differences between the two sides may lead to a failure to reach an agreement. Zarif said the six powers - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - now make concessions.

Zarif said in a comment posted on Twitter: "In the negotiations, the two sides should show flexibility ... we did and we are ready to conclude a good agreement for all. Wait ready counterparts."

Western officials familiar with the negotiations said that Iran had to make concessions in the remaining sticking points include Iran's nuclear ambitions in research and development and the immediate lifting of UN sanctions.

A senior State Department official: "continue to work hard, but hard ... we expect to increase the pace and we assess the possibility of reaching an understanding."

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters upon his arrival: "I hope that we reach a strong agreement. Iran has a right to civilian nuclear energy Regarding the nuclear bomb, the answer is no."

He said: "It was a long and arduous talks. We have made progress in certain points but the other points did not (progress) enough."

Iran denies any ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons and says its nuclear program is only for civilian purposes.

After the meeting with Fabius, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Zarif said he believed that all parties can progress in this way "to resolve all issues and to embark on the drafting of the text can be turned into a final agreement." And semi Steinmeier talks in Lausanne final stage to climb a mountain. Steinmeier said: "I began the final stage of the long negotiations ... and here with the vision of the Swiss mountain scenery remembered when one sees pass the final meters to the top of the mountain is the most difficult but also crucial."

He met Kerry Fabius and Steinmeier to discuss the remaining obstacles to an agreement. The two ministers met with shrimp Zarif, while Western and Iranian officials familiar with the negotiations warned that the possibility that he wished efforts fail remains.

A senior Iranian official familiar with the talks on the document consisting of two or three pages that the two sides hoped to be issued in the case to reach an agreement that "the two sides were very close from the very last step may be signed or agreed verbally and advertising."

Before meeting with Zarif, Kerry said he expected that the discussions extend to late. Zarif said that the meetings will be extended until "the evening and the night and the middle of the night and the morning."

Separately, Iranian President Hassan Rohani said in comments posted on Twitter that he spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and they agreed on the need to resolve the nuclear issue. Rohani had been sent earlier this week wrote to the six powers' leaders, including US President Barack Obama. He spoke over the phone also with five of the six leaders except Obama.

If agreed, the document will cover the key figures to a nuclear future agreement between Iran and the six countries, such as the maximum number and types of centrifuges to enrich uranium that Iran can play, and the size of the uranium stocks that can keep them, and the types of nuclear research and development that can be made, and the details of raising sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy. A number of Iranian officials denied that Iran is on the verge of reaching an agreement framework, but a Western diplomat said that the remarks aimed at the masses at home. A Western diplomat said: "The difficulty is that the Iranians do not move enough. Want to negotiate a strategy edge of the abyss and they are very adept at it."

Among the key figures in the duration of the agreement, which officials said they must last more than ten years.

It is supposed to come after a comprehensive agreement framework agreement by June 30, includes all the technical details on the border to be developed by Iran on the sensitive nuclear activities in return for an easing of sanctions.

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DEFECTING IRANIAN JOURNALIST: U.S. AT NUCLEAR TALKS ‘TO SPEAK ON IRAN’S BEHALF’



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by JORDAN SCHACHTEL28 Mar 2015151

 

An Iranian journalist who defected from his country while covering its ongoing nuclear talks has revealed startling information regarding America’s position at the negotiating table.
Amir Hossein Motaghi, who reportedly was employed at Iran’s state-run Iran Student Correspondents Association, told a London-based Iranian opposition channel that the U.S. was shilling for Iran in the ongoing negotiations over the regime’s nuclear weapons program.
“The US negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal,” Mottaghi told Irane Farda, according to UK’s The Telegraph.
Motaghi had previously worked on President Hassan Rouhani’s 2013 election campaign as his public relations manager, before moving over to working as a journalist in the tightly-censored country.
He is now seeking political asylum in Switzerland, after utilizing his opportunity to cover the talks in order to flee his home country.
The Telegraph reports that Motaghi was a friend of imprisoned Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who remains under detention without being charged of any crimes.
“My conscience would not allow me to carry out my profession anymore,” Motaghi said of his frustration working under the Iranian regime’s strict controls. He added that there was no “sense” in becoming a journalist in Iran because he only wrote whatever information was fed to him.
He explained to Irane Farda: “There are a number of people attending on the Iranian side at the negotiations who are said to be journalists reporting on the negotiations. But they are not journalists and their main job is to make sure that all the news fed back to Iran goes through their channels.”
Mottaghi told Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty that he is now fearful for his life. “I’d rather not talk very openly about this, to be honest I’m afraid,” he told the broadcasting organization.
“Some might say that [under Rohani] the number of newspapers that have been shut down and journalists who have lost their jobs has decreased. But in general conditions for journalists in our country deteriorate every day,” he added
The P5+1 world powers and Iran have until March 31 to reach a self-imposed basic framework for a nuclear accord.

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  kerry, you're fired!  Go hump hillarious' leg for a job.

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Iran rejects proposal to keep part of the sanctions
Tue, March 31 / March 2015 11:16

 

 

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Began Tuesday in the latest round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5 +1 in Lausanne in order to reach a nuclear agreement ending the economic sanctions on Iran.

The Iranian team refused negotiator in the nuclear file, the Swiss city of Lausanne, a proposal made by the international six-5 +1 to keep part of the imposed economic sanctions on Tehran in order to sign the nuclear deal.

The news agency Mehr a source close to the Iranian team as saying "Iran has refused to accept a proposal to keep the Western part of the sanctions imposed on it."

The day began in the last round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5 +1 in Lausanne in order to reach a nuclear agreement ending the economic sanctions on Iran.

In this context, Iran's top nuclear negotiator said, Abbas Araghchi, for the continuation of negotiations on Wednesday, saying: We hope that we can come to a conclusion until another time or day after tomorrow, Tuesday or Wednesday, but there is no guarantee to get it.

He continued that the talks are continuing, and we hope that we can in the final hours today or tomorrow from the outcome of the topics, but there is no guarantee to get it, pointing out that if a compromise was reached, it is scheduled to hold a final hearing at the United Nations headquarters Bjennif.anthy

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Iran nuclear deal: A quick guide to what's missing The Iran nuclear framework is a big step for US-Iran negotiations but the agreed-upon deal is still just an outline for decisions which have yet to be made.

 

By Peter Grier5 hours ago

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There are lots of specifics for US officials to like in the new Iranian nuclear framework. Iran’s negotiators agreed to give up about two-thirds of their working centrifuges, for example. That’s a big reduction in machinery which could (potentially) produce uranium enriched to weapons-grade levels. Furthermore, Iran agreed that all remaining working centrifuges would be first-generation IR-1s, which in technological terms are obsolete – the Ford Pintos of gaseous diffusion.

But remember, this is a framework. It’s an outline, a first draft, a plan of action for decisions which have yet to be made. There are a number of very important aspects of Iran’s program which aren’t addressed, but would almost certainly have to be part of a signed-and-sealed deal. Here are a few:Iran’s promised to not enrich any uranium above a low 3.67 percent level for at least 15 years. It says it will shrink its current stockpile of enriched fissile material from about 10,000 kilograms to 300 kg. And so on.

Recommended: How much do you know about nuclear weapons? Take our quiz.

What happens to uranium? Yes, Iran says it will reduce its stockpile of low-enriched uranium. But the framework is silent on how that will happen. US negotiators have long pushed for Iran to export much of its fissile material to a third party, probably Russia. Earlier this week Iran’s deputy foreign minister said that won’t happen, though. Will the uranium be downblended, or mixed with non-enriched stuff to make it harmless? Will the US and other great powers accept that? Stay tuned.

When will sanctions be lifted? In return for denaturing its nuclear activities, Iran would receive relief from international sanctions that have crippled its domestic economy. It’s not clear from the US-supplied agreement details exactly when that would happen, though.

The wording is vague. It says only that sanctions will be taken off after the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) has verified that Iran has taken all required nuclear steps. Secretary of State John Kerry, in his press conference after the deal, insisted this relief would occur in phases. That implies it would occur gradually over a perhaps-lengthy period of time.

That’s not the way Iranian officials are describing their prospective sanctions relief. In his public statements since the deal was announced, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has implied that the restrictions would be lifted earlier than Secretary Kerry’s announced timetable. Mr. Zarif has reacted angrily to the notion that this relief would be gradual, as well as to the US publication of purported agreement points.

“There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on,” Zarif tweeted on Thursday.

Recommended: Why Iran nuclear deal means so much to Obama (+video)

Will Iran discuss its old nuclear activities? International verification of Iran’s compliance with any nuclear deal remains an area where it seems as if the parties haven’t reached complete specific agreement.

There were some important Iranian concessions in this area, according to the US version of events. The State Department’s summary said that IAEA inspectors will have access to Iranian uranium mines, as well as to the “supply chain that supports Iran’s nuclear program.” That would greatly expand IAEA access – something the UN-sponsored agency has long pushed for.

“That’s a huge contribution at least potentially to ensuring that Iran doesn’t have any undeclared nuclear activities,” said proliferation nuclear nonproliferation expert George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

But will Iran let international inspectors go anywhere, anytime? The IAEA wants to re-check the Parchin military complex, for example. Intelligence obtained by the agency indicates Iran has carried out non-nuclear explosive work related to atomic weapons at that facility. So far Iran has refused the IAEA’s request.

Perhaps more importantly, will Iran talk about what the IAEA calls “possible military dimensions”?

Some years ago the IAEA obtained a pile of intelligence that indicated Iran had done a series of things related to nuclear weapons development, from work on high-voltage detonators, to a study of how to fit a nuclear bomb in a missile nose cone. Beginning in 2011, the agency asked Iran to explain this stuff. For the most part the Iranians have not, saying the evidence is faked.

The US version of the nuclear framework says only that Iran will “implement an agreed set of measures” to address the IAEA’s concerns about these possible military dimensions. What does that mean?

It may mean they’ve kicked this provision down the road for further negotiation. Lots of work remains before the framework becomes a real agreement.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-nuclear-deal-quick-guide-whats-missing-172423545.html

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The USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading to the Arabia Sea off the coast of Yemen to join other American warships prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to rebels, Navy officials say

 

http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=5&c=35665&l=35&ctl=6C086:84EB5AF593B451B351FEA9C10A615339&

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Another red line.......this could potentially get ugly! 

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my feeling is Obama won't want another failed foreign policy attempt - and if Iran is serious about working with the US and lifting sanctions, and the overall agenda of Iran is not to support the rebels in Yemen, then Iran will at least appear to be okay with America sending ships there.  We'll see.