CNN reporters: Journalist was out of line asking Obama about American

“By solving the artificial crisis about its nuclear program diplomatically, a new opportunity for regional and worldwide cooperation has emerged”, Zarif said.

President Barack Obama insisted on Wednesday the landmark agreement was the only alternative to a nuclear arms race and more war in the Middle East.

If the United States does not “choose wisely”, Obama said, “future generations will judge us harshly for letting this moment slip away”.

“The alternative to this bad deal is not war”, said Mr Netanyahu.

“My question did not suggest that he was content with the captivity of those four Americans”, Garrett said.

In Sotloff’s first point, Iran will be able to postpone any inspection of its nuclear sites for 24 days.

Many festooned their cars with balloons and danced on the street to celebrate the prospect of an end to the long years of economic hardship caused by Western sanctions. It will require vigilance and execution. Here you have a militant Islamic state, Iran, arming itself with nuclear weapons and receiving a huge cash bonanza in the bargain. “Congress holds the key to bringing my husband home, to returning the father to my children”, said Abedini. “That issue did come up and we got into some of the historic differences between the executive and the legislative branches”.

A channel 10 TV poll found that 70 per cent of Israelis oppose the nuclear deal, with only 10 per cent supporting it. A third of those polled said Israel now had no choice but to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Sen. The Prime Minister made clear that he remained committed to reopening the British embassy in Tehran and they agreed that foreign ministers should continue to work together to resolve the outstanding issues before this can happen.

“He acknowledged there will “inevitably be bumps in the road” during the implementation of the deal” but said it “has the potential to build a different kind of relationship between Iran and the West and change in a positive way the dynamics in the region and beyond”.

The president said this line of thinking leads to the conclusion that the only way of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is by applying military force. “With this deal, if Iran violates its commitments, there will be real consequences, nuclear-related sanctions that have helped to cripple the Iranian economy will snap back into place”, he warned.

But he praised President Hassan Rouhani and Iran’s negotiators. “We will always defend ourselves”, he said.

Now the United States and Britain are engaged in careful diplomacy with Middle Eastern allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel in a bid to ease concerns that Iran can not be trusted to implement the deal.