Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Search of Final Deal
Oren Dorell | USA TODAY
George Perkovich at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who recently returned from a five-day trip to Tehran and met with people knowledgeable about the negotiations, proposes that Iran reduce its capacity to enrich uranium for the time being. However, he says world powers should allow it to increase its enrichment program as it builds more nuclear plants.
Iranian Nuclear Deal Still is Possible, But Time is Running Out
John Kerry | Washington Post
Iran’s leaders can agree to the steps necessary to assure the world that their country’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful and not be used to build a weapon, or they can squander a historic opportunity to end Iran’s economic and diplomatic isolation and improve the lives of their people.
The Hawks' Playbook for Opposing an Obama Nuclear Deal with Iran
John Hudson | Foreign Policy
Though the United States has yet to secure a final deal to restrain Iran's nuclear program, an influential pair of hawks in Washington have already devised a way for Congress to unravel any potential agreement after the ink is dry.
Senior MP: Any Deal with 5+1 Should Receive Parliament's Okay
Fars News Agency
"If the negotiations bear results, then any final agreement will need the parliament's approval," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmayeel Kowsari told FNA on Tuesday.
North Korea Launches Two Missiles, Defies U.N. Ban
Reuters
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into seas east off its coast on Sunday, South Korea's military said, defying a U.N. ban on the isolated country testing such weapons.
Agenda for Nuclear Diplomacy
Rakesh Sood | Hindu
Mr. Modi is well placed, both at home and abroad, to impart a new momentum to the diplomatic process, thereby ensuring India's long-term energy security interests, giving a push to India-U.S. relations, and getting India to its rightful place at the nuclear high table.