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Concerns that Saudi Arabia has communicated privately to the United States have been enough to prompt US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to announce a trip to Riyadh designed to allay the House of Saud’s fears and avert any military escalation.

The benchmark blend recovered on Tuesday after falling as much as 2.5 per cent after Iran reached an agreement with six world powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for ending 12 years of sanctions that have crippled its economy and capped oil exports.

“We are working hard, but a deal tonight is simply logistically impossible”, the Iranian official said, noting that the agreement will run roughly 100 pages.

The European and Chinese foreign ministers have come and gone over the course of the talks and even their Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, left for a day, but John Kerry remained in Vienna throughout.

According to news reports, the prospects for a deal are good. “But, we have not seen mutual commitment by the US“. He observed that the United States has “aligned itself with Iran’s interests in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen”, and that after two...

If it succeeds, this deal would dramatically decrease the probability of another costly war in the Middle East and could usher in an historic rapprochement between the U.S. and Iran after 34 years of hostilities. But we also might not.

“It is within reach”.

One senior congressional aide familiar with efforts to sanction Iran said NIAC is widely viewed as Tehran’s in-house lobbying shop.

The Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported that the talks might be extended until July 13.

“I think we have resolved some of the things that were outstanding and we?ve made some progress”, Kerry said, as he met with his team of experts at the Palais Coburg hosting the talks in Vienna.

The Cabinet secretaries and other USA negotiators have spent the last two weeks cloistered in the Austrian capital, fueled not only by their desire to reach an elusive nuclear accord, but also an impressive supply of snacks: 10 pounds of Twizzlers, 20 pounds of string cheese, 30...

JNS.org – Tens of thousands of Christians signed on to a global petition organized by the worldwide Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) urging world powers involved in the Iranian nuclear negotiations to take a firm line with Iran. Putin said Iran would probably increase its...

Iran has offered “constructive solutions” to resolve disputes in nuclear talks with six major powers, the Iranian Students News Agency reported on Wednesday, but Western officials suggested they had heard nothing new from Tehran. His Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,...

“Mark my words; you can’t change horses in the middle of a stream”.

Warning that such “difficult decisions don’t become easier over time”, he said: “One way or the other those decisions must be taken very soon”.