If you like your nuclear capabilities, you can keep them, period. I guess this is what Obama and/or John Kerry told the Irans today when their nuclear program was supposed to be shut down. As usual, Iran played games, and played John Kerry, giving them until July 2015 now to get rid of nukes.
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| Obama-Kerry fail – Iran given another 7 month extension for nuke program |
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A yearlong effort to seal a nuclear deal with Iran fizzled Monday, leaving the U.S. and its allies little choice but to declare a seven-month extension in hopes that a new deadline will be enough to achieve what a decade of negotiations have failed to do — limit Tehran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other Western foreign ministers converging on Vienna in a last-ditch diplomatic push talked up the add-on time as the best way forward. “We would be fools to walk away,” Kerry declared.
But a week of tough maneuvering appeared to have achieved little more than agreement to keep on talking. Negotiators will now strive to nail down by March 1 what Iran and the six world powers it is negotiating with must do, and by when. A final agreement is meant to follow four months later.