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Congressional Republicans and Israeli officials are voicing their strong opposition to the six-month “first st<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> government last night, calling the deal dangerous and saying it doesn't go far enough in dismantling the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> nuclear program.</div>
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Iran and USA are talking on the nuclear program-me . USA is trying to stop the Iran nuclear program-me as it will effect the world peace</div>
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Speaking on ABC News on Sunday morning, Republican Sen. Sax by Chambliss said “nothing in the details that I have seen thus from moves us in the direction” of stopping the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> uranium enrichment program. “They’re going to continue to enrich uranium” he said.</div>
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Despite statements from US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry that the interim deal makes an <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> bomb less likely, Chambliss added: “I just don’t see this movement in the direction of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon at all,” since the current deal expires in six months if no longer-term deal can be reached.</div>
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While the agreement calls for the US to loosen some economic sanctions on the<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> economy, Chambliss insisted current sanctions are working and “now is the time to tighten those sanctions and get a long-term deal” on dismantling the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> enrichment program.</div>
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And despite Obama’s pleas to Congress to leave further sanctions alone for the moment in order to let diplomacy work, Chambliss said, “You’re going to see a strong movement in the United States Senate toward tightening sanctions” in the coming days.</div>
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Announced late Saturday night after intensive negotiations in Geneva, the Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT] signed by Iran and the “P5+1” <i>—</i>the United States, France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia — is limited to the next six months, during which time the two sides will work to hammer out a more comprehensive accord. The document prohibits Iran from installing or starting new centrifuges, and demands the country halt work at its plutonium reactor while submitting to inspections by international nuclear inspection teams.</div>
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The deal also calls for Iran to leave inoperable about half of the centrifuges installed at its Natanz facility and three-quarters of installed centrifuges at Fordow to ensure the plants cannot enrich uranium.</div>
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In return, the United States will temporarily halt some economic sanctions against Iran worth about $6 billion or $7 billion, according to the White House.</div>
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“The relief Iran gets under this agreement is insignificant, economically” a White House official insisted Saturday night, adding they are “limited, temporary, targeted, and reversible” if the Iranians do not adhere to the terms of the agreement.</div>
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The White House insisted no sanctions targeted at Iran’s sponsorship of terrorist groups, or targeting its support for the regime in Syria, would change.</div>
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Obama hailed the temporary deal as marking<i> “</i>the first time in nearly a decade we have halted the progress of the<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a>  nuclear program, and key parts of the program will be rolled back.”</div>
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As with any negotiated deal, different interpretations of the written text emerged almost immediately.</div>
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In a press conference in Geneva after the deal was announced,<a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a>  Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted “people should stop threatening to use force because that option is no longer on the table” and the agreement recognizes the “inalienable right” of Iran to be able to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.</div>
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Kerry, who rushed to Geneva on Friday to take part in negotiations, shot back minutes later: “This first step does not say that Iran has a right to enrichment.”</div>
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A senior Obama administration official backed up the Kerry’s comments, saying flatly “The document does not say anything about recognizing the right to enrich uranium. We do not recognize their right to enrich uranium.”</div>
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On Sunday morning, Kerry backed up those comments, telling ABC News “There is no right to enrich. We do not recognize the right to enrich.”</div>
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“Under the terms of this agreement there will be a negotiation over whether or not” Iranians can pursue future enrichments. “They could only do that by mutual agreement, and nothing is agreed on until everything is agreed on ... they could only gain that capacity only if they live up to all the terms” he added.</div>
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., released a statement on the agreement Sunday morning, reading the deal in the same way as the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a> government .</div>
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The agreement “explicitly and dangerously recognizes that Iran will be allowed to enrich uranium” Cantor said. “It is clear why the Iranians are claiming this deal recognizes their right to enrich,” he added.</div>
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Cantor lines up behind growing Republican calls for more sanctions as well, stating that “loosening sanctions and recognizing Iran’s enrichment program is a mistake, and will not stop Iran’s march toward nuclear capability.”</div>
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South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted Saturday night that “unless the agreement requires dismantling of the <a href="http://worldwidedefense.blogspot.com/search/label/Iran"> Iranian</a>centrifuges, we really haven’t gained anything.”</div>
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<strong>John T. Bennett contributed to this report.</strong></div>

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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iran and world powers locked horns in an intense second day of nuclear talks Thursday, with Tehran saying “no progress” was made towards clinching a long-awaited breakthrough deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both sides, seeking to end the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme after a decade of rising tensions, stressed however that the talks in Geneva were detailed, serious and constructive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speculation swirled that US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top diplomats were gearing up to fly to Switzerland to join the talks for the second time in two weeks but this was not confirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raising the pressure, US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in Washington that lawmakers would move to impose new sanctions on Iran in December if there is no deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany — the so-called P5+1 — want Iran to freeze parts of its nuclear programme for six months in return for relief from painful sanctions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This hoped-for “first phase” deal would ease tensions while Iran and the six powers hammer out a final accord to put an end to fears that Tehran is seeking to build an atomic bomb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iran’s delegation chief said after meetings lasting a total of four and a half hours between Foreign Minister Mohammad Jarad Zarif and P5+1 head negotiator Catherine Ashton that “no progress” had been made in narrowing differences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abbas Araqchi, quoted by the Mehr news agency, did not elaborate, but a European source gave a more upbeat assessment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We are making progress. There fewer points in brackets (in the draft agreement),” the source said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But obviously the remaining issues are the hardest ones… Tomorrow (Friday) will be important.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Numerous attempts to resolve the nuclear impasse have failed over the last decade, but the election this year of relative moderate Rouhani as Iranian president has raised hopes that this time a deal can be struck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The proposed accord includes suspending uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity — close to weapons-grade — as well as measures reducing uranium stockpiles and tighter UN inspections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Israel, which refuses to rule out military action against Iran, the proposal does not go far enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the complete and permanent dismantling of all of Iran’s nuclear facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yesterday, Iran’s supreme leader, (Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei, said ‘death to America, death to Israel’, he said that Jews are not human beings,” Netanyahu said in Moscow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashton’s spokesman, declining to comment in detail, said that the talks, due to resume at 0800 GMT had so far been “useful” and “very good”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It has been very detailed it has been very substantial,” Michael Mann said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Similar talks two weeks ago came close to succeeding, prompting Kerry and other foreign ministers to jet into Geneva ready to sign a deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But they failed to reach an agreement after France insisted that the proposed deal did not go far enough in securing guarantees on Iran’s uranium enrichment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday that the text being debated with the Iranians was “supported by all six” world powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">US Senate warns of new sanctions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Western powers say that the relief from painful sanctions that Iran would get in a deal would be minor, and that the main oil and banking sanctions would stay during this period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">US President Barack Obama’s administration has leaned heavily on Congress to hold fire on new sanctions legislation in order to give the negotiations a chance to succeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But US Senator Reid said that while he supported Obama’s “diplomatic effort”, shortly after the Thanksgiving recess next month he would act on a new bipartisan sanctions bill if the nuclear talks do not bear fruit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If Rouhani, meanwhile, fails to secure quick and substantial relief from the sanctions, he risks losing the support of arch-conservatives and the supreme leader, experts say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sticking point is Iran’s insistence that its “right” to enrich uranium is recognised by the P5+1, even though this is not explicitly set out in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Enrichment is a dual-use activity, it can be used for peaceful purposes or for making weapons fuel,” Mark Hibbs from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told AFP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If at this stage of the negotiations the powers acknowledge Iran has a ‘right to enrich’, Iran can pocket that right and from there on refuse to accept any limitations on its enrichment programme on that basis.”</span></div>

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