Iran nuke deal framework announced
World powers and India welcome understanding reached with Iran on its Nuclear programme. Comprehensive settlement to be negotiated by June 30. Crude oil prices fall after agreement.
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Tentative Nuclear Deal With Iran Reached
An interim nuclear agreement was reached after eight days of negotiations in Switzerland between six world powers and Iran. Not quite time to celebrate or catcall yet; since the binding...
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Shields and Brooks on making a deal with Iran
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week #39;s top news, including the newly reached agreement framework for Iran #39;s...
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Story highlights Iranian President says a nuclear deal would remove a major obstacle for business "We can cooperate with the world," President Hassan Rouhani insists He says, "We do not lie," and Iran will abide by its promises on nuclear deal
"Some think that we should either fight ... or we should surrender to other powers," President Hassan Rouhani said. "However, we believe none of that. There is a third path. We can cooperate with the world."
Rouhani said his government kept its word to Iranians when negotiating the framework deal, which was agreed upon Thursday and sets parameters for talks that could lead to a comprehensive deal by a June 30 deadline. Chief among them is that Iran would keep at least some centrifuges and no longer face international sanctions.
He thanked Iranians for their patience and for "resisting" by standing up for the country's rights.
As to the rest of the world, the Iranian President said he thinks most now realize that Iran "is pursuing peaceful objectives." That means trying to develop nuclear energy, not nuclear weapons, as many feared. That fear, combined with distrust of Iran's leaders, spurred the sanctions and the Middle Eastern nation's isolation.
"We do not lie," Rouhani said, vowing that Iran will be true to its word, "provided the other parties will implement their own promises."
What Iranians think of the deal
Those promises include reducing Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98% for 15 years and significantly scaling back its number of installed centrifuges. Still, while it will be shrunken and centralized, Iran's nuclear program won't go away.
What should happen -- assuming there's a common view that Tehran is doing as required -- is that countries will end their sanctions. That was non-negotiable for Iran, with Rouhani saying the deal shows his government's commitment to removing a major "obstacle ... for business" by addressing the world's worries about its nuclear program.
"We need economic productivity, employment for the youth and development of non-oil products," he said. "Thus our people can witness better things for their welfare."
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Key players in Congress - Republicans and Democrats -- are skeptical of the Iran deal and want to see the fine print.
No one is ruling out a big push ahead on new Iran sanctions, or a measure to require President Obama to get congressional approval, two pieces of legislation the White House strongly opposes.
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But there appears to be a willingness to hear the administration out in promised briefings on the framework when lawmakers return to Washington on April 13.
An aide to House Speaker John Boehner tells ABC News that the approach in the House is not a wait-and-see until June 30th posture, but that Republicans want the briefings, a chance to review the details and discuss possible next steps with members.
Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said today it is important that we wait to see the specific details of todays announcement and that everyone must remain clear-eyed. He vowed an April 14 committee vote on a bill to require congressional review of a nuclear deal, but there is no plan yet to bring it up for a vote in the full chamber. (Corker has said hed like to have a veto-proof majority before the bill is voted on by the full Senate.)
Well know more in the days ahead, after April 14, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told ABC News.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he was surprised so many details were revealed in the framework and said that Congress should be careful not to scuttle the opportunity for a diplomatic resolution.
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