Iran balked at Geneva nuclear deal, says John Kerry

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Iran balked at Geneva nuclear deal, says John Kerry

Associated Press in Abu Dhabi
theguardian.com, Monday 11 November 2013 10.30 GMT

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has said the major powers were unified on an Iran nuclear deal during weekend talks in Geneva but the Iranians were unable to accept it. He said critics of the plan should withhold their comments until a deal was reached.

Earlier reports said the talks fell apart because France refused to accept the proposed deal. Kerry said the major powers reached an agreement but Iran was not able to accept the deal "at that particular moment".

"The French signed off on it, we signed off on it," he said in Abu Dhabi. "There was unity but Iran couldn't take it."

Kerry said the rejection by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, of a deal to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions was premature. "The time to oppose it is when you see what it is, not to oppose the effort to find out what is possible."

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/iran-nuclear-deal-john-kerry

[TwilightGardener]

1. OK--two completely different versions of what happened. Why was the story

yesterday that it was the French who wrecked it, and the Iranians were mad at them and calling them gunslinging frogs? Someone's pulling our leg.