Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
April 13, 2015
[...]QUESTION: So I’m sure we’ll get back to the specifics of the Iran deal, but I just wanted to ask. The White House mentioned – also the Russians have said that Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov --MS HARF: Yes.QUESTION: -- had a conversation today.MS HARF: They did.QUESTION: Your colleague at the White House said that one of the...
April 9, 2015
Throughout 2014 and thus far in 2015, the attention of the international community increasingly turned to the potential outcome of negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear accord. The P5+1-Iran negotiations began in February 2014 and reportedly made steady but slow progress, causing several extensions of the JPA. On April 2, 2015, the P5+1 and Iran...
April 8, 2015
JUDY WOODRUFF: Secretary Kerry, welcome. Thank you for talking with us.JOHN KERRY, Secretary of State: It’s my pleasure.JUDY WOODRUFF: So you’ve put a lot of effort into negotiating this framework agreement, spent months, if not years on this. People look at this and they see all that effort and I think one question is, is it going to take even...
April 8, 2015
Israel shares the view that upon the expiry of the nuclear agreement with Iran the latter's breakout time to achieve nuclear weapons will be zero. This will be the inevitable result of the automatic lifting of the restrictions, which would enable Iran to achieve an industrial-grade production capability.
April 7, 2015
STEVE INSKEEP: So many of the concerns and questions about the Iran deal seem to me to focus on what kind of a country you think Iran is.People are asking, "what will happen in 10 or 15 years as the deal starts to expire," or they're asking "what will Iran do in the region during the period of the deal?"All of those concerns seem to get down to...
April 6, 2015
On the framework agreement that was reached in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, between the major powers and Iran over its nuclear program, the Council of Ministers expressed hope that a final, binding and definitive agreement would be reached leading to the strengthening of security and stability in the region and the world.
April 6, 2015
MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. So I hope everybody had a good weekend -- the unofficial start of spring -- with all the holidays, opening day in baseball. To mark that occasion here at the White House, we’re not just going to have the Easter Egg Roll in the South Lawn, we’re actually going to have a briefing today that includes not...
April 2, 2015
Below are the key parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program that were decided in Lausanne, Switzerland. These elements form the foundation upon which the final text of the JCPOA will be written between now and June 30, and reflect the significant progress that has been made...
April 2, 2015
We, the EU High Representative and the Foreign Minister of the I. R. of Iran, together with the Foreign Ministers of the E3+3 (China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States), met from 26 March to 2nd April 2015 in Switzerland. As agreed in November 2013, we gathered here to find solutions towards reaching...
April 2, 2015
SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening and – excuse me – thank you all very, very much for your patience. And I want to start by expressing an enormous thank you, merci, danke, to the people and the Government of Switzerland for their incredible generosity. The way in which they have welcomed us and the amount of effort is really extraordinary, and...