Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
Iran blames Western powers for nuclear talks failureWhat possibility? France (of all countries!) just told the Iranians to go fuck themselves. We jumped on that bandwagon alongside France to avoid the Administration looking too spineless. The talks have collapsed, have they not?"...The possibility of a nuclear deal with Iran..."
They have not. They will continue till we reach a deal. We will probably have to give them more than we have offered so far.
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Iran's foreign minister has blamed divisions between Western powers for the failure to agree a deal on its nuclear programme on Saturday.
BBC World News - 12 November 2013 Last updated at 07:04 ET
Mohammad Javad Zarif rejected US Secretary of State John Kerry's claim that Iran had been unable to accept the deal "at that particular moment".
He said "no amount of spinning" could change what had happened in Geneva, but it could "further erode confidence".
Mr Zarif appeared to blame France for "gutting over half" of a US draft deal.
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Some reports said the latest talks failed because France had wanted to place tight restrictions on the heavy-water reactor being built at Arak; others that the Iranian government's insistence on formal recognition of its "right" to enrich uranium had been the major obstacle.
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At the end of the day's talks, Mr Fabius told France Inter radio that Paris could not accept a "fool's game".
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BBC News - Iran blames Western powers for nuclear talks failure
Sounds like the talks, did, indeed, fall apart over the weekend.
The conferees are apparently going to take another (last?) crack at it, beginning on November 20th.