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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUK Guardian on the Iran Nuclear Deal
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/iran-nuclear-deal-completed-foreign-ministers<snip>
Iran and six world powers reached a breakthrough deal on Sunday to curb Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for limited sanctions relief.
The agreement between Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia was nailed down after more than four days of negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva.
The accord was designed as a package of confidence-building steps to ease decades of tensions and confrontation over Tehran's nuclear aspirations.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who has been co-ordinating talks with Iran on behalf of the major powers, said it created time and space for talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive solution to the dispute.
"This is only a first step," the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told a news conference. "We need to start moving in the direction of restoring confidence, a direction in which we have managed to move against in the past."
In Washington, President Barack Obama said the deal was an important first step towards a comprehensive solution to Iran's nuclear programme.
The agreement would make Israel and other US allies safer, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, said.
He said while Obama would not take off the table the possible use of force against Iran, he believed it was necessary first to exhaust diplomacy.
But Israel's intelligence minister, Yuval Steinitz, who is responsible for monitoring Iran's nuclear program, said the deal was based on "Iranian deception and self-delusion" and there was no reason for the world to be celebrating
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Surprise - NOT! Bye Bye Bibi!
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malaise
Nov 2013
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1. Israel's pissed that Americans won't die while killing Iranians
Why are we friends, again?
malaise
(269,219 posts)3. Nah - probably angry that she wasn't invited to the dance
and fears that the gravy train is drying up.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)2. Israel. Bibi Downer
Wanh! Wanh! Waaahhhh!
malaise
(269,219 posts)4. DUzy