AFP: Canada vowed to keep its sanctions regime against Iran after a preliminary deal on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program, calling for a more conclusive accord. Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program for the next six months in exchange for limited sanctions relief.
Canada vows to keep its Iran sanctions after deal
Obama moves to prevent rift with allies over Iran deal
Bloomberg: President Barack Obama offered reassurances to Israeli leaders and some Democratic lawmakers critical of a nuclear deal with Iran as he sought to tamp down maneuvers in Congress that risk undercutting the accord.
Iran nuke deal could push oil prices lower
AP: World oil prices could be headed lower after the preliminary nuclear deal between Western nations and Iran, even though the deal does not loosen sanctions on Iran’s oil exports. In the short term, the deal may make it easier for Iran to sell the oil it is already allowed to sell under the sanctions.
John Bolton: Iran deal an ‘abject surrender’ for US
The Hill: President George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations decried the new nuclear deal with Iran as “abject surrender by the United States.”“The inescapable conclusion is that…the White House actually did prefer a bad deal to the diplomatic process grinding to a halt,” Bolton wrote.
Iran pact faces stiff opposition
Wall Street Journal: The leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties are threatening to break with President Barack Obama’s policy and enact new punitive sanctions on Iran, arguing that the interim deal reached in Geneva on Sunday yields too much to the Islamist regime while asking too little.
‘Great Satan’ meets ‘Axis of Evil’ and strikes a deal
Reuters: Saturday night had turned into Sunday morning and four days of talks over Iran’s nuclear program had already gone so far over schedule that the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel had been given over to another event.
Iran’s Rouhani: He’s no Gorbachev
Los Angeles Times: nalogies between Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s negotiations with Iran and the negotiations the Reagan administration undertook with the Soviet Union have become commonplace. But is Hassan Rouhani really another Mikhail Gorbachev?
Israel blasts Iran nuclear deal as ‘historic mistake’
AFP: Israel on Sunday lashed out at the Geneva nuclear deal brokered by world powers as being heavily stacked in Iran’s favour, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it a “historic mistake.”
Iran’s Khamenei hails nuclear deal
AFP: Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed on Sunday the “achievement” of the country’s negotiating team in clinching a long-elusive nuclear deal with world powers, Fars news agency reported.
Cornyn: Iran deal an ObamaCare distraction
The Hill: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) dismissed a nuclear deal struck between leading world diplomats and Iran as a further attempt by the Obama administration to distract from the botched rollout of the healthcare reform law.
