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2014-07-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran to receive $2.8 billion of blocked assets in 4 months
Senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said that an additional $2.8 billion worth of Iranian frozen assets will be released during the next four months, the period of extended nuclear talks.
In return for what? Talking?
Araqchi who is deputy foreign minister for Legal and International Affairs said that the assets are scheduled to be released is 6 stages from August in 20-day periods, Iran's Mehr news agency reported on July 19. Iran's Central Bank will receive the assets in 4 stages of $500 million and two stages of $400 million during the period, Araqchi remarked.

It should be noted that the country has already gained access to $4.2 billion of its oil revenues frozen abroad by eight money transfers under a six-month interim nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1(the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) which took effect on Jan. 20.
In return for talking. They sure got a lot settled at those talks, didn't they...
Despite permitting Iran to receive new payments of its frozen assets the U.S. officials warned that most sanctions against the Islamic Republic would remain in place, Reuters reported on July 19.

"Iran will not get any more money during these four months than it did during the last six months, and the vast majority of its frozen oil revenues will remain inaccessible," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a statement released in Vienna on July 19. "We will continue to vigorously enforce the sanctions that remain in place."
By which Jahwn means that Champ will roll over quietly and give the Iranians what they want...
In exchange for the $2.8 billion, Kerry said, Iran has agreed to continue neutralizing its most sensitive uranium stocks- uranium that has been enriched to a level of 20 percent purity - by converting it to fuel for a research reactor in Tehran that is used to make medical isotopes.
Really? Who are the inspectors -- North Koreans?
Iranian media outlets quoted Abbas Araqchi as confirming the issue. Araqchi went on to say that 25 kilograms of uranium oxide will be converted to fuel in next four months.

The details and steps which will be carried out during the four-month period are included in a non-paper agreement between the two sides, he added.
So Jahwn got an oral commitment and nothing in writing. Brilliant, simply brilliant...
Posted by Steve White 2014-07-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 And where's it coming from?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-20 02:29||   2014-07-20 02:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Now they will finally be able to afford s300.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-20 06:16||   2014-07-20 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Patience is an attribute of a good negotiator, and Iran continues to demonstrate their chops.

On the one hand, Iran continues to supply armaments to their brothers in arms (and legs, heads, etc.), and on the other coyly lead "The World" on about their peaceful atomic intentions.

Mr. Obama & Co. desperately want need a flow of "action" headlines, even if they are loaded with nothing more than "progress" palliatives. Nothing good can come of this.

Kerry is dancing to the fugue selected and played by Mr. Obama, and time has been demonstrated to be Iran's friend.
Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-20 16:14||   2014-07-20 16:14|| Front Page Top

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