US, French officials: Iran nuclear negotiations have reached an abrupt halt

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France said on Saturday there was no certainty nuclear talks under way with Iran in Geneva would succeed because of major stumbling blocks over an initial proposed text on a deal, and the importance of Israel’s security concerns.

“As I speak to you, I cannot say there is any certainty that we can conclude” the talks, Fabius said on France Inter radio, noting that France could not accept a “sucker’s deal”.

“The security concerns of Israel and all the countries of the region have to be taken into account,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.

The talks have deeply upset some of Iran’s traditional enemies in the region such as Israel, whose Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the Jewish state “utterly rejects” a deal.

Among the sticking points for Paris, Fabius said that France wanted Iran to stop operations at its Arak reactor during the negotiations and said there were questions about Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to 20 percent.

France has traditionally taken a tougher line on Iran than most other world powers and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused it of being more intransigent in talks than the United States.

“We are for an agreement, that’s clear. But the agreement has got to be serious and credible. The initial text made progress but not enough,” he said.

Meanwhile, Western diplomats say they are disappointed at the progress of nuclear negotiations in Geneva, and expect discussions to continue at least until next week, Los Angeles Time reported on Friday.

Unnamed diplomats from Washington did not tell the Times why the talks had come to a halt, but the paper speculated that the disagreement could be over Iran’s construction of a plutonium reactor, a direct path to a nuclear bomb.

Part of the proposed agreement between Iran and the international community is that they would agree not to activate the reactor while an interim deal is in place.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief Negotiator Abbas Araghchi was also skeptical about the success of the current talks, saying “negotiations have reached [a] critical, very sensitive situation, and it needs decisions at higher levels.”

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  1. Buzz of the Orient Said:

    According to another story in today’s issue of ISRAPUNDIT he may even have been a ‘c*cksucker”.

    Quite a bit has been written on this but buried on the fringe of the news. Aoron Klein and WND have both carried some of the stories. The rev. wright trinity church was considered a “church” where upward mobile black gays on the “down low” would be matched with black women so they could keep their life style while keeping in the closet. 3 gays connected witht he Church and obama were murdered during the same period. a person in this extortable situation might agree to anything rather than disobey his masters. He is kept floating by a network of bought judges, media and politicians of both parties who are themselves on the payroll and blackmailable. If or when it becomes necessary he will be ditched by the same network employed in his rise.

  2. French FM call Obama a “sucker”.

    According to another story in today’s issue of ISRAPUNDIT he may even have been a ‘c*cksucker”.

  3. Fabius said on France Inter radio, noting that France could not accept a “sucker’s deal”.

    French FM call Obama a “sucker”.

  4. Part of the proposed agreement between Iran and the international community is that they would agree not to activate the reactor while an interim deal is in place.

    Very comforting…

    According to Debka, what’s holding things back is the fact that the Iranians are adding more concessions to the mix. They smell blood (cowardice) and are now moving in for the kill.