US/IAEA reach Nuclear Deal With Iran

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33518524

Iran nuclear talks: 'Historic' agreement struck

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World powers have reached a deal with Iran on limiting Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of international economic sanctions.

Iran's foreign minister called the agreement "historic", saying it opened a "new chapter of hope". It reportedly gives UN nuclear inspectors extensive but not automatic access to sites within Iran.

Negotiations between Iran and six world powers - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany - began in 2006. The so-called P5+1 - want Iran to scale back its sensitive nuclear activities to ensure that it cannot build a nuclear weapon.

Iran, which wants crippling international sanctions lifted, has always insisted that its nuclear work is peaceful.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the deal was "a sign of hope for the entire world". "It is a decision that can open the way to a new chapter in international relations," she said.

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The text of the deal has not been released but these are some of the details it is believed to contain:

• A compromise over the inspection of sites within Iran, the Associated Press quotes a diplomat as saying - UN inspectors would be allowed to monitor military sites but Iran could challenge requests for access
• Iran has accepted that sanctions could be restored in 65 days if it violates the deal, Reuters cited diplomats as saying
• A UN arms embargo and missile sanctions would remain in place for five and eight years respectively, Reuters reports

'Significant step forward'
Separately, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran said they had signed a roadmap to resolve outstanding issues.

IAEA head Yukiya Amano told reporters in Vienna that his organisation had signed a roadmap "for the clarification of past and present outstanding issues regarding Iran's nuclear programme".

He called the agreement a "significant step forward", saying it would allow the agency to "make an assessment of issues relating to possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme by the end of 2015".

There has been stiff resistance to a deal from conservatives both in Iran and the US.

Israel's government has also warned against an agreement.

Following reports of a deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted as saying that Iran would receive a "sure path to nuclear weapons" and "a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars".

 

[Liu Kang]

*expects bold and big fonts with plenty of exclamation points*

 

[Liu Kang]

Iran nuclear deal reached in Vienna
The agreement – after 17 days of negotiations and 12 years of deadlock – to be unveiled by foreign ministers on Tuesday morning

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Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif waves from a balcony of the Palais Coburg Hotel, Vienna, on 13 July. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images​

Julian Borger in Vienna
Tuesday 14 July 2015 10.10 BSTLast modified on Tuesday 14 July 201510.45 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/iran-nuclear-deal-expected-to-be-announced-in-vienna

A comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear programme has been reached, according to diplomats in Vienna, bringing to an end a 12-year standoff that had threatened to trigger a new war in the Middle East, and potentially marking the beginning of a new era in relations between Iran and the west. A formal announcement on the agreement will be made at a press conference in Vienna at midday (11am BST), after a final plenary meeting at 10.30am. At some point it is expected that the US president, Barack Obama, and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, will make statements from their capitals.

The deal follows 17 days of almost uninterrupted negotiations in Vienna involving foreign ministers from seven countries – Iran, US, UK, Russia, China, France and Germany – and the EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini. The talks only came to an end in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and diplomats stayed up through the night “scrubbing” the text, looking for mistakes and discrepancies. It is expected that the estimated 100 pages of text – including five annexes – that make up the agreement will be published in the next few days. The agreement will be made official when it becomes an attachment to a planned UN security council resolution later this month. However, the operative parts of the resolution, lifting sanctions, for example, will be suspended for a few months.

Much of the outline of the agreement is already known, having been provisionally settled in Lausanne in April. It involves Iran accepting curbs on its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief, but many of the critical, politically charged details will only be made public on Tuesday. It is understood that the conventional arms embargo will last another five years, and restrictions on ballistic missile technology will last eight years. Under a complicated arrangement, a violation could lead to the automatic “snap-back” of sanctions within 65 days, if a dispute-resolution process failed.

The full agreement, known as the joint comprehensive plan of action, is likely to come under instant and ferocious attack from its opponents – mostly in the US, Iran and Israel – but its defenders portray it as one of the most important arms control accords of modern times and a rare diplomatic success in the Middle East.
Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who has faced mounting criticism at home over his handling of the diplomacy around Iran, moved pre-emptively to denounce the deal even before the details had emerged. Heading a chorus of condemnation from Israeli politicians – many members of his rightwing coalition – he said the agreement was a capitulation and a mistake of historic proportions. The deal was also denounced by hardline former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman as “a total surrender to terror”. Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party, said Netanyahu’s campaign over Iran had been a “colossal failure”.

On Monday, the Iranian president’s office was forced to delete a premature tweet in his name that appeared to welcome a nuclear agreement that had yet to materialise. The deleted tweet on the English-language account under Rouhani’s name declared: “#IranDeal is the victory of diplomacy & mutual respect over the outdated paradigm of exclusion & coercion. And this is a good beginning.” Soon after, a new tweet was posted in its place, adding the word ‘if’ at the beginning.

As the Monday evening target came and went, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, appeared on the balcony of the Palais Coburg hotel in Vienna hotel, the venue for the talks, and faced shouted questions from the journalists in the street below. Asked how he was feeling, Zarif replied: “Sleepy and overworked.” Asked if there would be a deal on Tuesday, he said: “It is possible.”

Once an agreement is announced, it will not take effect for some time: it must first survive a trial by fire from its critics in Washington and Tehran. The greatest hurdle will be the US Congress, where Republicans have a majority and are expected to vote against the deal after a review period of up to 60 days. They will seek to win over 12 Democrats in an attempt to defeat a presidential veto.

 

[CHL]

*expects bold and big fonts with plenty of exclamation points*

brace yourselves for the meltdown that's about to happen ITT

 

[CHL]

Netanyahu

Likud party

Republicans

Napoleon

Iranian conservatives

 

[FAH1223]

China, Russia, and Iran are the big winners.

Ayatollah Khamenei knows that the US will never let sanctions go. Especially with the things about Iran that Congress consistently yaps about such as "not being a democracy", "supporting Hezbollah/terrorism", and just not bowing down.

Iran would have to completely surrender many of its national tools. The Pasadran has to go as well as the Velayet of Fiqh, leaving the French model presidential system. Privatization of the oil industry and full access to its markets is also necessary.
Iran can continue to be anti-Israeli in words only, the same way Saudi and the Gulf are anti-Israel. But they will not be allowed control their economy if they were to bow to the requests of Congress. Obama will definitely veto legislation in October that will block this deal.

Now the Chinese and the Russians have been pushing for these talks since the beginning. They want Iran to show the world that it has curtailed its program. All they need is an agreement which they now have and then they can start to pull Iran into their alliance after UN sanctions on nuclear proliferation are lifted. Iran will be admitted into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with China and Russia having the Iranian's back.
Meaning they will ignore all sanctions and actively oppose the remaining sanctions while beefing up Iran's military.

Iran can then in 10 years restart its nuclear weapons program with no fear of Israeli or US interference.
It will be like India and Pakistan, the US and EU will put new sanctions and make angry faces , none of which will hurt Iran which has shielded itself from further economic blackmail.



By agreeing to a deal the Israelis are right to be pissed off...because you acknowledge the independence and the middle power status to Iran in the future. They will effectively be the regional power that can honestly keep the Israelis shook.

These brain dead Arab countries could never think of negotiating like this. Arabs do not understand the legalistic tradition of the West which is heavily influenced by a multitude of traditions. While the Iranians have a much more intricate and byzantine culture of intrigue and subterfuge are able to play the negotiation game even better than the west because its part of their culture.
The refusal of the US to honor agreements and continued US sanctions will be ignored by them, and they will in future have the economic and political support and even military support to remain independent.

Iran is a crucial part of China's Silk Road Strategy.

 

[YvrzTrvly]

Well said @FAH1223

But seriously fukk the west saying a country cant do whatever they want with their materials.

Pot calling kettle black eh?

 

[88m3]

Ayatollah or hardliners are probably going to throw this in the bushes anyways

 

[CHL]

Well said @FAH1223

But seriously fukk the west saying a country cant do whatever they want with their materials.

Pot calling kettle black eh?

NO.

Fam.

fukk THE WEST? fukk THE WEST? You TRAITOR!


Hypocrisy does NOT exist ON THE geoPOLiticAL StAGE. I support US Hegemony, you naive fools. Hard HARD Power MUST be EXERCISED to further US National INterest. This. is. a. TERRIBLE. deal!

You. All. Cannot. Handle. The. Power. OF. Hegemony.

Spoiler

did I do it right?

 

[hashmander]

i'm watching out for these 12 so called democrats the repugs are going to try to recruit.

 

[50CentStan]

Oil investors

 

[Quarterback]

fukk THE WEST? fukk THE WEST? You TRAITOR!


Hypocrisy does NOT exist ON THE geoPOLiticAL StAGE. I support US Hegemony, you naive fools. Hard HARD Power MUST be EXERCISED to further US National INterest. This is a TERRIBLE deal!

Spoiler

did I do it right?

You forgot to add...

No.

This. is. not. good.

White hegemony is GOOD, Islam is a CANCER. We must worship white people and make sure they keep stealing from the Middle East so they can be richer and more powerful. So they can keep controlling the media and oppressing us.

You. all. do. not. understand.

Whites are gods. All hail to them


Then that p*ssy will have the nerve to post c00n ALERT in other threads, as if he isn't king c00n

 

[FAH1223]

Ayatollah or hardliners are probably going to throw this in the bushes anyways

No they're thrilled

The have achieved their objective of getting rid of UN Sanctions

This opens up a lot of things

 

[Broke Wave]

Tragic, we could have been partnof a very entertaining war. Maybe I woulda got enlisted in Canada and blown up by some IED. Sigh, a man can only dream.

 

[88m3]

No they're thrilled

The have achieved their objective of getting rid of UN Sanctions

This opens up a lot of things

Hopefully you're right. I'm not that optimistic.


Hopefully they can get on with their death to America plans or whatever.