With just five days left until the November 24 deadline, British and US diplomats are expressing pessimism about the chances of actually coming to some sort of deal with Iran before then.
“Right now, I think it’s going to be difficult to get to where we want to go,” insisted Obama aide Tony Blinken, insisting Iran has to take more steps to placate the US and “convince our partners.”
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond also said he doubted that there was any chance a final deal could be reached by the Monday deadline, though he did hold out hope for an extension “if we’re making a good progress in the right direction.”
Extensions are risky with a much more hawkish US Senate coming into office in January, and planning to pass a bill that would give them effective veto power over US negotiations.
The more realistic hope is that another “partial” deal would be reached that will be closer to a final settlement, and will leave open room for technical issues to be settled later.
If I was the Iranians I would be pessimistic the British and Americans DO NOT want a deal, they are still asking to prove a negative!
Iran needs state of the art defensive capabilities right now if they don't want what happened to Syria to happen to them!
Netanyahu wants war with Iran, so all the AIPAC purchased dual citizens in Kongress will work tirelessly to that end!
To — Farflungstar
President Ahmadinejad, the greatest statesman going, once said, “We should be so stupid as to build one or two nuclear weapons?
I would concur, for our Empire got away with nuking Japan only because no one else had the A-bomb, but today if any nation sends flying a nuke in hostility, they could get dozens in return, a couple from each nation that has nukes armed and ready to fire. For reason correctly they would, that they could be the next nation to be wasted.