Iranian officials were upbeat today at what was described as a “realistic” series of offers by Western officials at the ongoing P5+1 talks in Kazakhstan, saying they marked a major turning point in the talks.
The exact details of the concessions are not all public knowledge yet, but reportedly includes allowing Iran to continue to produce medical isotopes and an offer to relax sanctions, including an end to the ban on petrochemical trades, in return for a “suspension” of enrichment at Fordo.
This is a major shift on two fronts, as previous reports had the West only offering to allow Iran a trivial amount of grey-market gold bartering and had demanding not just a suspension of Fordo, but a complete dismantling of the facility.
No deal has been agreed to yet, but the potential seems to be there, with both sides agreeing to a side meeting in mid-March in Istanbul to discuss details and a follow-up in Kazakhstan in early April, potentially for a final agreement.
I would not be too exited being Iranian. Sanctions are multilateral and multi-layered that removing just few of them would take lot of political fighting in all entities involved in them. Take for example situation in US – it took a month for Israel Firsters in US Senate just to approve Chuck Hagel for Secretary of defence – because of Iran. Israel already expressed its disapproval with these talks with Iran, saying Iran should be attacked militarily. Can you imagine these senators of US so much loyal to Israel to vote for cancellation of Iran sanctions despite Israel vocal objections? I just somehow can not. Then there are sanctions of UNSC where US is having a veto powers and is known to use them against all resolutions which have not been liked by Israel. And there is still power of unsubstantiated allegations against Iran in all levels. Iran still can be accused of not adhering to agreement and sanctions will be reactivated even if by sheer luck they were somehow eased a day before.
It is to soon to be excited.., west is not truest worthy to began with.
I'm with Canuk on this…. America's OWNERS don't seem to cotton to any Iran friendly expediencies… I am of the "give them enough rope and they will hang themselves" (again & again…) school of thought.. Some people don't know how to live and let live and they have been paying for that fault since before 2OOO BC…
not going to happen. we will give iran nothing of value and/or still demand full cessation in enrichment. there is no deal coming.
If i am wrong, and there is a deal, we should start preparing for a war
"If i am wrong, and there is a deal, we should start preparing for a war"
Start preparing, the war won't start until the last survivalist has abandoned his bunker. We're in for a deluge of good news.
Lockheed Martin gets a lot of money for the missiles in Eastern Europe. But in the end, there´s no defense against Launch On Warning, probably by 2017. Then it´s only a matter of time until we suddenly, unexpectantly find ourselves in Accidental Nuclear War.
Even if nothing comes out of this, it is still a shocker. One can only hope.
Watch how Ray McGovern and Mohammad Marandi discuss the subject of talks in Kazakhstan:
http://presstv.com/detail/2013/02/27/291129/us-in…
Iran continues to underestimate the evilness of US foreign policy. For example, the New York Times reports: "As Iranian negotiators spoke in positive tones about their resumed nuclear negotiations with the big powers, Congressional lawmakers in Washington introduced legislation on Wednesday that would greatly expand the sanctions on Iran, amounting to what both supporters and critics said would be like a commercial trade embargo if fully carried out." See http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/world/middleeas….
Oh I doubt that – they've had plenty of experience of how evil Zionist/U.S policy is towards them. THink Hezbollah and you have an idea of how well the Iranians know who their enemies are…
A glimmer of hope, but US/Israel are snakes so not much.
saddam hussein and qadaffi trusted the u.s., west.
Israel aint going to like this. And if they don't like it, it aint going to happen! The boss always has the last say.