Report #1 on the deal: "The broad outlines of the deal, announced in a joint statement in Switzerland by the European Union’s chief diplomat, Federica Mogherini, and Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, included steep concessions on both sides."
Report #2 on the deal: Deal Threatens to Upend a Delicate Balance of Power in the Middle East:
"While both the United States and Iran insist that negotiations pertain solely to Tehran’s nuclear program, leaders across the Arab world see the agreement through the prism of the Middle East’s delicate balance of power and the many conflicts racking the region."
Report #3: Top five things to know about the deal...centrifuges, breakout times, Iran's Three Enrichment Sites, Inspections, & Pace of Sanctions Relief
Report #4: The skeptics guide to the deal
The NY Times:
Report #1: "Mr. Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz, a nuclear scientist who played a crucial role in the last stages of the negotiations, said the pact satisfied their primary goal of ensuring that Iran, if it decided to, could not race for a nuclear weapon in less than a year, although those constraints against “breakout” would be in effect only for the first decade of the accord."
Report #2: Obama's Foreign Policy Gamble...“Right now, he has no foreign policy legacy,” said Cliff Kupchan, an Iran specialist who has been tracking the talks as chairman of the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm. “He’s got a list of foreign policy failures. A deal with Iran and the ensuing transformation of politics in the Middle East would provide one of the more robust foreign policy legacies of any recent presidencies. It’s kind of all in for Obama. He has nothing else. So for him, it’s all or nothing.”
Op-Ed: "Talking
to adversaries — as President Ronald Reagan did in nuclear weapons
negotiations with the Soviets and President Richard Nixon did in his
opening to China — is something American leaders have long pursued as a
matter of practical necessity and prudence. Yet
in today’s poisonous political climate, Mr. Obama’s critics have gone
to extraordinary lengths to undercut him and any deal. Their belligerent
behavior is completely out of step with the American public, which
overwhelmingly favors a negotiated solution with Iran, unquestionably
the best approach."
Update: the Department of State release: Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program. The EU's Release is here.
Update: the Department of State release: Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program. The EU's Release is here.
