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‘Quite possible’ Iran, powers can reach nuclear deal next week
Major powers and Iran are getting closer to a first-stage agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, adding it is “quite possible” a deal could be reached when negotiators meet November 21-22 in Geneva.
“I don’t know if we will reach an agreement. I think it is quite possible that we can, but there are still tough issues to negotiate,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The official said EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif were to meet on November 20 in Geneva and a wider group known as the P5+1 – including Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States – would meet Iranian officials there on the following two days.
Negotiations last week in Geneva ended without an agreement, as the sides worked to defuse a decade-old standoff over Iran’s nuclear program.
U.S. President Barack Obama has urged skeptical U.S. lawmakers not to impose new sanctions on Iran while negotiations are ongoing and called for a pause in U.S. sanctions.
The U.S. official told reporters that estimates of direct sanctions relief being offered – which have ranged from $15 billion to $50 billion – were “wildly exaggerated.”
“It is way south of all of that and quite frankly it will be dwarfed by the restrictions that are still in place,” the official said.
The official said imposing further sanctions threatened the good faith effort of negotiations not with Iran but also among the six U.N. powers.
“The P5+1 believes these are serious negotiations. They have a chance to be successful,” the official said. “For us to slap on sanctions in the middle of it they see as bad faith.”
Oil prices slipped lower on Friday on the reports that Western powers may reach a deal.
Commenting on a U.N. inspection report released on November 14 that said Iran had stopped expanding its uranium enrichment capacity, the official said it was “a good thing” but did not resolve fundamental questions and concerns about Tehran’s nuclear program.
“We appreciate the step but the reason for our negotiation is to get at certainty that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon and we are a long way from that,” the official added.
6 Comments on "‘Quite possible’ Iran, powers can reach nuclear deal next week"
DC on Fri, 15th Nov 2013 11:30 pm
Lol! the puppet uS ‘president’ said directly on the idiot box just 2 days ago, that even if Iran ‘complied’ with the illegal and unreasonable Us ‘demands’, that the MOST that Iran would ‘win’ form the Us of Israel in return, was an insignificant amount of ‘relief’ form the current illegal sanctions.
That was it. The Us, even if it gets what it ‘wants’ out of these bogus talks, wont stop the economic warfare and broad spectrum harassment of Iran. Which is of course, says a great deal about the uS’s real goals. They are not remotely about anyting nuclear, but rather, that the US seeks to wage war endlessly on Iran regardless of the circumstances.
This is the uS ‘stance’ currently.
uS:If you(Iran) meet all or our ridiculous and ginned up ‘demand’s about your nuclear power program, well cut you a deal. Really, you’ll love it.
Iran: Like what?, youll lift all your illegal sanctions and leave us alone for once?
uS:Errr, no. But instead of punching you 100 times like we had planned on, we’ll only punch you 99 times instead. Deal?
Iran: …..
BillT on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 2:30 am
Iran has to go or the Empire is finished. Well, the Empire is finished anyway, but…
Any bets on who bombs Iran first?
Israel
Saudi Arabia
The US
NATO
???
baptised on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 3:01 am
What countries including Iran have the ability to shoot 5 to 10 satellites. The debris from 5 to 10 would wipe out the rest and hurt 1st world countries terribly and make most precision bombs useless. I just say this because of the idiot hawks in the USA, that are always wanting to sanction or bomb someone. They are not untouchable, as they think in this modern world.
J-Gav on Sat, 16th Nov 2013 4:46 pm
DC – Not quite. They would also potentially ‘win’ the privilege of having Western energy companies pouring in to develop Iran’s resources more quickly and ‘efficiently’… Those companies would love to have that opportunity since the resources there are much less expensive to search for and extract than in , say, 2 miles worth of deep seawater and ocean bed.
bobinget on Sun, 17th Nov 2013 4:19 pm
What will any ‘agreement’really mean in terms a peaceful outcome this decade long stand-off?
The elephant in the room is still Syria.
I’m using the word ‘elephant’ because it reminds of the African saying; “When Elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers”.
On topic to this board. “What could happen?” if two of world’s top producers, both OPEC members, engage in a proxy war over Syria?
Israel is almost incidental here.
Israel and KSA may share geopolitical interests, but if Saudi Arabia hopes to
become ‘Islamic Central’ being allied with Israel may not be a winning strategy with any Muslim population, including Saudi Arabia’s.
It’s vital we remember, ‘Russia or Iran are willing to seed Syria to the Saudis’. The nuclear weapon issue is a sideshow to the more important Syrian Proxy Civil War.
bobinget on Sun, 17th Nov 2013 4:22 pm
(edit) that should read NOT willing to
permit Assad’s Syria to fall under KSA
direction.