Thursday, December 12, 2013

Troy Reuters backstage night agreement on nuclear and how that Washington was able to grab the approval of Khamenei

Troy Reuters backstage night agreement on nuclear and how that Washington was able to grab the approval of Khamenei

Extended to ensure Saturday night to Sunday morning, has exceeded the talks has been going on for four days in connection with Iran's nuclear program scheduled dates already overshadowed by the time he was the Intercontinental Hotel Geneva has allocated to another event.
published by Reuters on Tuesday, a report under the title of "the Great Satan corresponds to the axis of evil and consistent with him "participated in the preparation and his estimate 7, told reporters they" Louis Charbonneau, Parisa Hafezi, Arshad Mohammed, John Irish, Justina Pawlak, Omar Khalil, Mounir Bawīti. "
The report says that on that night there was a ceremony to raise money for charitable activities falls Astara in Disco Above the lobby of the hotel and the band perform at the end of the ceremony, the Johnny Cash song "fell into a pit of fire raging" and weary diplomats are still trying in conference rooms adjacent to finalize the agreement. And went negotiators from Qaathm complain that the lobby smelled of beer.
At about two in the morning summoned U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterparts the British and the Chinese, French, German and Russian to the conference hall to approve the final text of the agreement, which eases sanctions on Iran somewhat against the imposition of restrictions on its nuclear program .
at the last minute after the gathering of Ministers in the hall, an Iranian official contact students make adjustments. The negotiators refused to world powers. And finally informed the minister the end of the row and became the agreement, which took to reach ten years is ready for signing after painstakingly.
, but negotiations are not over the signing of the Interim Agreement as it is still on the parties to reach a final agreement dispels completely doubts in Iran's nuclear program.
said Kerry told reporters: "Now begins really difficult phase. We know this. "
Improvement
Agreement represents a major improvement in relations between the United States and Iran in more than 30 years since the revolutionary Iranian students held 52 Americans hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. But almost not completed.
Until the last day there was still a lot of work to be done when he arrived, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to join the foreign ministers of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.
Officials from a number of these countries complain to reach an agreement. EU diplomats said his voice cracking with dismay that the ministers for Foreign Affairs did not Ichoa come only in the presence of a final text is ready, but they were forced to attend anyway when he arrived, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
, and when he arrived at the Foreign Ministers me some senior diplomats and journalists from their hotel rooms to make the place them.
, and after the arrival of Kerry on Saturday met with U.S. Minister to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and responsible foreign policy in the European Union, Catherine Ashton, who led the delegation of powers negotiating.
According to a senior official in the U.S. State Department that Kerry told Zarif that there is no room for further delay Westdau the administration of President Barack Obama to impose more severe sanctions on Iran unless agreement is reached now. And demands by some members of Congress to tighten sanctions have joined the White House to them.
official said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Kerry explained that "there is no way to prevent new sanctions to make way for a new round of talks and we will lead a campaign to impose further sanctions unless we reach an agreement."
By Saturday evening, the text The final has been approved by Obama personally in Washington. In a sign of the size of the risk that it provides the U.S. administration condemned Israel, a U.S. ally in the Middle East, the basic agreement, which she described as a "historic mistake", saying it eases sanctions without dismantling Iran's nuclear program.
But Obama said the agreement sets limits to Iran's nuclear program can hardly with her ​​that made ​​weapon and make it easier for the world to know that I tried.
added, speaking in front of the media late in the White House after reaching an agreement, "he simply cut the roads that are likely to Tzlkha Iran to reach Bomb. "
It was not Obama alone risk. He has promised Iran's new President Hassan Rohani relatively moderate his countrymen when he was elected in June and set up in August to ease the sanctions that cripple the country's economy. But Iran has invested billions of dollars in the nuclear program, which believes its founder religious and military that a solid foundation for the pride of patriotism.
before dispatch Zarif to Geneva contract is a spiritual meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who must get the approval of any agreement.
official said former Iranian Family of dead nearly Khamenei "the main concern of the leader is a block key supporters who believe firmly that he should not be held any agreement with the United States and are watching developments closely for a point of weakness or failure they attribute to the negotiators for their betrayal of leadership."
Secret talks
One of the factors that led to the agreement secret talks were held with Iran for months in unexpected places such as Oman and use which American officials military aircraft and side entrances and elevators service to maintain confidentiality.
was confirmed by U.S. officials and an Iranian official earlier conduct these talks, which were the most important contact in more than 30 years and described Iran the United States, during which as "the Great Satan" and the United States described Iran as part of an "axis of evil" with Iraq and North Korea.
They reveal the American desire back to the beginning of the Obama administration in January January 2009 to explore ways in which may lead to a reconciliation between the two countries, which Atnabban hostility since 1979, and were accepted by the allies.
According to the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity that among the officials who participated in this effort, William Burns, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. The official said the two men met in some cases accompanied by other officials such as Puneet Talwar, a member of the National Security Council at the White House with Iranian officials at least five times this year.
He added that Burns and Sullivan and technical experts arrived in the Omani capital Muscat in March military plane - in order to preserve confidentiality - to meet with the Iranians.
This was before the election of a spiritual months later, which represents a sign that Iranian officials had begun to accept the idea of ​​talks already before taking power.
One of the reasons for the victory of spiritual tougher candidates hope to be able to ease the sanctions, which are increasingly stifling impact on the Iranian economy since that tightened the United States and the European Union in 2011, to include oil exports are critical to the economy.
Solving Rohani, who was at one time head of the Delegation of Iran in the nuclear negotiations replace the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was inclined to style clash. But in the end what it was possible to conduct negotiations without the approval of the Supreme Leader Khamenei.
Green light
The Iranian official said earlier participated in a round of secret talks "to give them the green light to the leader, but he was not optimistic about the outcome." And added that the most difficult meeting was the first meeting because of questioning Khamenei.
The channel itself is open under the auspices of Oman Kerry, who visited the Sultanate to meet secretly Omani officials in his capacity as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the U.S. Senate before taking over the Foreign Ministry.
After that the solution to Kerry in early February replace Hillary Clinton at the State Department decided to maintain the channel of Oman as an adjunct to the multilateral talks led by the responsible foreign policy in the European Union Ashton on behalf of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, a group known as the five-plus-one. Kerry visited Oman himself in May to hold talks with Omani officials.
Around the time of Kerry, who took over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent to Akbar Salehi, the Iranian foreign minister at the time in the era of Ahmadinejad's message extraordinary three-page handwritten to Khamenei, calling for an "extensive discussions with the United States."
Several sources said that the Supreme Leader sent Despite skepticism in the possibility of success of such a course in response to Salehi and the rest of the members of the Council of Ministers stating that he is not optimistic, but he would not object if they worked their way to this initiative.
A source known Salehi and saw the message, "Salehi Khater his political future and even personal security. But he said that this message will be recorded in history. "In August, Salehi was appointed spiritual head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.
The U.S. official said that four of the big US-Iranian secret meetings held after the inauguration of a spiritual office in August, which represents a sign that the United States was trying to exploit the opportunity offered by the new president take over.
Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister in the General Assembly of the United Nations in September, and shortly thereafter, Obama spoke by telephone and spiritual in highest-level contact between the United States and Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Kerry spoke with the Iranian foreign minister as well as by telephone on October 25 and the second did not reveal the State Department at the time about the substance of their talks.
The recent months have seen a remarkable change as well as in body language when there are diplomats from the United States and Iran in the same room. Whatever were the relations between the two exhibits, officials from both sides now standard operating procedure.
During the talks held in Geneva earlier this month spotted Reuters Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman chatting alone in the lobby of a hotel with Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
It was not such a friendly occasional meetings in public, something unthinkable a few months ago.
However, the United States is eager to continue briefing the role of Burns and Sullivan confidentiality to the extent that they I sent to Geneva twice this month to participate in a wide-ranging talks between Iran and the major powers without to include their names in the list of the official delegation and made them used entrances to the side of the hotel and service elevators in order to preserve confidentiality.
The last batch
When it is time the last installment in Geneva diplomats predicted superiors not to attend the Foreign Ministers to be completed by the final text of approx. Journalists wait in anticipation costly weigh on prices pockets drinks at the hotel.
Even after the arrival of the foreign ministers, officials did not seem optimistic about the possibility of reaching an agreement on the final day.
He said German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, "the agreement is not guaranteed. There is a realistic chance but we still have to accomplish a lot of work. "
Among the reasons for the disagreement recent Iranian heavy water reactor in Arak, which Western nations suspect that Iran may Tnnj days where plutonium for bomb-making.
He said British Foreign Secretary William Hague, "showing that the appointment of the border for that and determine what should happen there in the period of six months, a difficult task. But that was agreed upon now. The solution to this problem is what helped open the way for the agreement. "
It was French officials are demanding in public to take a tough stance from Iran, but several Western diplomats said the French were more flexible and behind closed doors.
was Arak difficult problem but they were not the most difficult problems. It was Iran and the major powers still need to find a formula acceptable to both sides regarding what it sees as Iran's basic right to enrich uranium.
said a senior member of the Iranian delegation said Zarif contract before heading to Geneva a crucial meeting with Khamenei in the presence of a spiritual.
"The leader stressed the importance of respecting Iran's right to enrich uranium and that it supports the delegation as long as it respects this red line. "
According to another source in Iran that Zarif and spiritual and senior allies held later in the meeting lasted three hours and discussed "solutions to save face" different with regard to formulations which envisage to be accepted for both sides.
came to an agreement on Sunday that Iran and the major powers aimed at reaching a final agreement "includes a program of enrichment defined in a joint and the two sides agree on the value of changing to conform to the practical needs as they agree on the limits of its enrichment activities and their level and ability and place of execution and stockpiles of enriched uranium for a specific period corresponded them. "
can Iranian officials to refer to male enrichment program as a victory for them shows that it will allow them to retain it. Western officials say that the agreement does not mean anything from it, and assert that all limits given in the text.
highlight the differences of interpretation of how difficult progress towards a final agreement resolves the disputes a final solution. The stumbling progress easily.
however represents the agreement in relation to those committed by both sides of an historic victory.
said the official, former Iranian who took part in secret talks with the United States "Jaszewna but we won."

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