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France, UK insist that any Iran deal must include comprehensive verification

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iran nuclearBritain and France have insisted that any deal on Iran’s contested nuclear program must include a comprehensive verification regime to ensure Tehran sticks to its commitments.

After years of tortuous negotiations, both sides are racing to agree to a deal by June 30 that would see Iran open up its nuclear program to allay concerns it is seeking atomic weapons, in return for the West lifting punishing economic sanctions.

But suspicions run deep and both British foreign secretary Philip Hammond and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius were adamant that Iran, which says its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes, should have no wriggle room.

“Britain wants a robust and verifiable deal with Iran that ensures that its nuclear program in the future is exclusively civil,” Hammond said after talks in Luxembourg with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, Fabius, Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier and EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini.

“We cannot compromise on the absolute red lines we have. If we do a deal, it has to be verifiable,” Hammond said.

“There is a lack of trust on both sides and only full verification… to confirm that both sides are in compliance with their agreements is going to regenerate that trust in the future.”

Fabius had already warned on Sunday that any deal with Iran had to be verifiable and on Monday (local time) spelt out France’s demands again.

“A robust agreement is one which includes an extensive verification element, including if necessary visits to military sites and automatic re-introduction of sanctions if Iran violates the accord,” Fabius told reporters.

Iran and the P5+1 powers – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States – agreed in April on the main outlines of what would be a historic deal scaling down Tehran’s nuclear program.

In return, they agreed that punishing western sanctions against Iran would be progressively lifted if regular inspections confirm that Tehran is sticking to the accord.

The two sides, having missed a March 31 deadline, agreed in early April a new date of June 30 to finalise the accord and negotiators have been meeting regularly in Vienna and elsewhere since then to hammer out a deal.

AFP

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13 responses to “France, UK insist that any Iran deal must include comprehensive verification”

  1. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    Do these double standard officials of France and UK consider the Zionist state’s possession of nuclear weapons?
    Mark Twain said “Man was the only animal that blushes…or needs to” but we are now losing the sense of fairness and truth and shame that would cause us to blush. We have no shame because we abandoned decency and tilted in one biased direction!

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-weapon-free_zone

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          Russia has destroyed more than 86 percent of chemical weapons stockpiles
          Work on the elimination of chemical weapons will be completed in 2019 http://lenta.ru/comments/news/2015/06/23/chem/

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      IF the Atomic Energy Commission doesn’t have some reports of Israel’s fiddling with the stuff, then YES, it’s double-standaring going on. IF there are no reports on this, then honesty is an unknown concept.
      ‘We’ might assume ALL is actually inspected and done properly in Israel. But should we? And why?
      The question then becomes, can anyone trust the Commission?
      However, we also know it doesn’t need thousands of whirling-dervish-machines to simply make electricity with the stuff, and a ‘Plan’ to put those ‘power plants’ all over a country (19?) existing on a fault-zone, to make an unneeded quantity of electricity for desert-dwellers in Adobe huts doesn’t seem necessary.
      SO, IF one wants to ‘make a deal’, then ‘The International’ needs the verification.
      And then, of course, we need to simply “BELIEVE” … which seems a common ability.
      After which, those with any sense will still rail against increasing the DANGEROUS WASTE EVERYWHERE – even if another Chernobyl or Tsunami-Japan never happens.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Israel

    4. MekensehParty Avatar
      MekensehParty

      From a strictly legal perspective Iran signed the NPT and is required to prove that it’s not building nuclear weapons. Whether you respect the treaty or you don’t sign it, it’s as simple as that.
      Iran has the choice of canceling the treaty and it won’t be bothered by the UN… but it won’t be protected by it.
      As long as you’re a member of the treaty and prove that you abide by its terms, the UN will protect your right to pursue peaceful nuclear technology, and will defend such right diplomatically. If you quit this treaty you loose such protection and it’s up to your enemies to decide whether your nuclear program is peaceful or military.
      So the ones who need to blush are your Iranian friendos who want to be protected by the UN while lying to the UN.

      1. Mutih Skeini Avatar
        Mutih Skeini

        You avoided the topic about Israel’s possession, and instead strayed in filtering your Zionist sentiments against the only non-Arab country in the region that waves the banner of dignity and national pride, as well as the dismantling of the structure of the Zionist Israeli racist regime and transform Palestine into a binational state for all races and creeds.

        1. MekensehParty Avatar
          MekensehParty

          I didn’t avoid it at all
          Israel didn’t sign the NPT and therefore is not bothered by the UN or the IAEA. It also doesn’t benefit of any protection from the UN for its peaceful nuclear program.
          Take your pride and dignity and use them to grow some balls and decide once and for all, do you want the NPT or not?

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    In the UK, for an overnight stay of tourists have arranged a pigsty http://cwmcrwthfarm.co.uk/holiday-cottages/mafanwys-ark/

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Hey man … at 25 Euros a night PLUS bacon&eggs, THAT is a real super-BARGAIN.
      Back-packers have to pay those rates on some hiking trails, in cabins cosy with some real pigs, and better be carrying their own food too. Let alone astounding per-night-costs in London, even B&B’s aren’t that cheap …. and some you wish you never entered. 😉

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    Schizophrenic locked up after beheading London woman http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/schizophrenic-locked-up-after-beheading-london-woman/

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      One hopes.

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