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Kerry Tells Iran that Existing Sanctions Will Stay in Place as Nuclear Negotiations Continue

(Washington Post) Anne Gearan - Secretary of State John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday that the U.S. will continue to enforce existing sanctions on Iran while bargaining over a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program. Kerry and Zarif have portrayed the interim deal reached in November very differently. Kerry stresses that the deal forces Iran to stop the uranium enrichment work most likely to lead to a bomb and degrade its existing stocks of the most potent uranium. Zarif stresses the economic benefit to Iran and recognition of Iran's right to a uranium enrichment program. Zarif said in an interview Saturday that Iran was not prepared to give up research on centrifuges used to purify uranium as part of a final nuclear deal.
2014-02-04 00:00:00
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