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Iran toys with the Champ and vows no agreement today.
[Jerusalem Press] Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran declared Thursday "no agreement will be signed today and the six world powers are not due to sign any agreement today" despite P5+1 comments that a deal "is close but elusive."

Zarif added there might be a joint statement by midnight "if everything goes well."

Iran has made mincemeat of President Barack Obama's threat to "walk away" from the negotiations if a framework agreement was night signed by midnight March 31. In the end, the president phoned U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Energy Earnest Moniz to tell them to hang in there if there were signs of progress.

Obama sounded tough in the American media, which said that the president told his representatives in Lausanne to tell Iran they indeed would "walk way" and leave sanctions in place, figuring that threat might make Iran a bit more flexible.

Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-02
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