US, French deliver assurances against ‘bad’ Iran deal

Negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program will result in a good deal for the world or no deal at all, senior US and French officials assured separate American Jewish audiences on Monday in Washington.

 

At a gala marking Israel’s independence, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, flanked by Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer and Minister of Intelligence Yuval Steinitz, said US President Barack Obama was prepared to do what is necessary to prevent a “nuclear-armed” Iran— a specific turn of phrase used often by the Obama administration, which reserves flexibility in US policy to recognize limited peaceful nuclear work in Iran, should a deal come to pass.

 

Iran and world powers— the US, France, United Kingdom, Russia, China and Germany, known formally as the P5+1— began drafting a comprehensive solution to the longstanding crisis in Vienna on Monday.

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