Financial Times: The US and Iran emerged with different ideas about the future of the latter’s uranium enrichment program from the six-month agreement that sets out the parameters of a comprehensive accord to come.
Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, stressed that the text – which was not made available to reporters – stated “twice explicitly that Iran will have an enrichment programme”.
“Iran’s enrichment programme will continue and be part of any agreement, now and in the future,” Mr Zarif declared. Iran, he said, maintained its “inalienable right” under the 1968 non-proliferation treaty to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
Minutes later, John Kerry, US secretary of state, countered by saying that the interim accord did not say Iran had a right to enrichment. “It’s not in this document,” he said.