Posted on 03/16/2015 1:00:09 PM PDT by Dave346
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Iranian diplomats twice confronted their American counterparts about an open letter from Republican senators who warned that any nuclear deal could expire the day President Barack Obama leaves office, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
The official, noting the administration's warnings when the letter first surfaced, said the GOP intervention was a new issue in the tense negotiations facing an end-of-month deadline for a framework agreement.
The letter came up in nuclear talks Sunday between senior U.S. and Iranian negotiators, the official said, and the Iranians raised it again in discussions Monday led by Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Zarif was quoted by Iranian state media after the meeting as saying the topics included the potential speed of a softening of U.S. economic sanctions and the new issue of the letter from the senators. "It is necessary that the stance of the U.S. administration be defined about this move," he was quoted as saying.
Kerry and Zarif met for nearly five hours in Lausanne, the start of several planned days of discussions. Most of the Iranians then departed for Brussels, where they were to meet with European negotiators.
In Brussels, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that "we are entering a crucial time, a crucial two weeks." And German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that after "more than 10 years of negotiations, we should seize this opportunity."
"There are areas where we've made progress, areas where we have yet to make any progress," British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said. "But the fact that we're all here talking shows the commitment on both sides to try to reach an agreement."
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Good. Hope it’s the fly in the ointment.
Here we go. Now the Dems will bring out their advanced negotiating tactics. Blame, blame, blame, insult, demean, blame, blame, insult. Because only they can claim the pedestal of righteous moral superiority and worldly knowledge.
Kerry will guarantee that Obama is never leaving Office
BOOM YOW!
Gee, never saw this coming.
giggle
I don’t give a damn what they say or think.
Tough tooey...
They’re upset to find that 0bama is full of taqiyya?
That's because everyone is being lied to. 0bama is in negotiations with France, UK, China and Russia (the permanent members of the UN) to swing this deal.
This is why it is important for Senator Corker to advance his bill to have congressional approval and sanctions are controlled by Congress. Other wise, its the UN who administers the program, and they're not at all pro-Israel.
The Iranians would be fools to trust a man who has repeatedly betrayed his own country. Anyone would be a fool to trust him.
The Republican’s better have a game plan for when this deal is scuttled - the MSM and American haters (I know I am repeating myself) will be out full bore blaming the Republican’s for interfering on this deal and robbing Obama of this one chance for world peace - count on it.
In the end, the homeowner has to trust that the king cobra is exclusively peaceful.....
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