Source: www.dailykos.com - Thursday, April 02, 2015
Iran's Russian-built nuclear electricity-generating plant at Bushehr For the past eight days, a deal in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program has been what Reuters first used in a headline late Wednesday: "close but elusive." That apparently has changed , according to the Associated Press. But there's still a hang-up: Western officials say that Iran and the United States have agreed on the outlines of an understanding that would open the path to a final phase of nuclear negotiations but are in a dispute over how much to make public. The officials spoke Thursday outside talks focused on formulating a general statement of what has been accomplished and documents setting down what the sides need to do by the end of June deadline for a deal. The negotiations have been going on for 18 months with the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany (the P5+1) on one side and Iran on the other. The six major powers seek to ensure that Iran's nuclear program is curtailed so that it would take at least a year for it to "break out" and build a nuclear weapon. Iran wants to get out from under economic sanctions imposed on it because of what those powers and much of the rest of the United Nations considers that nation's drive to build a nuclear weapon. Iran says it doesn't want to build a nuclear weapon and that its program is peaceful and intended only for civilian use. The negotiations have been made difficult by the long-s
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Iran's Russian-built nuclear electricity-generating plant at Bushehr For the past eight days, a deal in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program has been what Reuters first used in a headline late Wednesday: "close but elusive." That apparently has changed , according to the Associated Press. But there's still a hang-up: Western officials say that Iran and the United States have agreed on the outlines of an understanding that would open the path to a final phase of nuclear negotiations but are in a dispute over how much to make public. The officials spoke Thursday outside talks focused on formulating a general statement of what has been accomplished and documents setting down what the sides need to do by the end of June deadline for a deal. The negotiations have been going on for 18 months with the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany (the P5+1) on one side and Iran on the other. The six major powers seek to ensure that Iran's nuclear program is curtailed so that it would take at least a year for it to "break out" and build a nuclear weapon. Iran wants to get out from under economic sanctions imposed on it because of what those powers and much of the rest of the United Nations considers that nation's drive to build a nuclear weapon. Iran says it doesn't want to build a nuclear weapon and that its program is peaceful and intended only for civilian use. The negotiations have been made difficult by the long-sfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1bRGAI3
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