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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hinted to reporters on Monday that support would pick up for the Iran nuclear agreement in the coming days.

“Over the coming months, we will work to ensure that the nuclear agreement is a success, including by making sure that it is fully implemented by all sides”, Hammond said.

“We don’t subscribe to that notion, but we are skeptical that, should Iran attempt to consider moving to a nuclear weapon, we could deter them from pursuing it through economic sanctions alone”.

He pointed out that most of those opposed to the Iran deal supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, thus implying that they were warmongers-conveniently overlooking that his vice president and both of his secretaries of state voted for the war in Iraq.

Philip Hammond made the statement the day after the reopening of the British embassy in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

This marks the drawing of a line under what was a period of tension between the two countries.

Iran’s embassy in London also reopened on Sunday.

Philip Hammond is flying to Tehran for a ceremony to mark the move in the first visit to the country by a British foreign secretary since 2003.

Hammond said that it was important that the two countries maintained dialogue even under the most hard conditions.

Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has started negotiations with the visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in the Iranian capital.

The pair watched as the Union flag was raised while the national anthem played as the embassy’s perimeter fence was guarded by dozens of Iranian police.

But sharp price falls are beginning to encourage demand and the IEA forecast world oil demand would grow by 1.6 million barrels per day this year, up 200 000 bpd from its previous estimate and the fastest pace in five years. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, crude oil for delivery...

The United Kingdom reopened its embassy in Iran for the first time in four years as diplomatic relations improved following July’s nuclear accord, the Foreign Office said.

If he announces he is a “no” as predicted, he will join New York Sen.

A prominent Democratic senator said on Tuesday he would oppose an agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme in a fresh sign of trouble for President Barack Obama as he seeks to secure support for the deal from lawmakers.