Posted on 09/26/2013 6:38:37 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry says Iran sanctions could be eased in months
AFP 1 hour ago
UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that if Iran takes rapid measures to cooperate with international monitoring of its nuclear program, Washington could begin lifting sanctions within months.
Speaking to CBS News flagship 60 Minutes he said Iran should, for example, open up its Fordow underground nuclear facility to international inspection and undertake to scale down the level to which it enriches uranium.
"The United States is not going to lift the sanctions until it is clear that a very verifiable, accountable, transparent process is in place, whereby we know exactly what Iran is going be doing with its program," he said.
But, asked by his interviewer whether Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had been right to predict that a deal could be in place within three to six months, Kerry replied: "Sure, it's possible."
"It's possible to have a deal sooner than that depending on how forthcoming and clear Iran is prepared to be," he said, according to a transcript provided by CBS.
Kerry's comments were broadcast after a day in which he had held a rare -- almost unprecedented -- encounter with his Iranian opposite number Mohammad Javad Zarif, and both took part in a meeting of the P5+1 Iran contact group.
Zarif and Rouhani were in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly and repeated their insistence that Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons.
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Hear! Hear!
Iran wants rights nuclear research and nuclear power ‘recognized’ by the United States.... And it wants U.S.-UN sanctions lifted.
The United States wants only ‘verbal assurances’ that Iran is not building a bomb....and ‘inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities’.
How’d that work with Saddam????
Obama and Kerry don’t care what the deal is as long as they can ‘say’ they made one!
Thanks Sub-Driver.
The alqueda terrorists already have access to nukes in Pakistan and can steal them any time they want
The Iranians are morons, they’ll blow themselves up before they figure out how to build a bomb
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