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The first big development Friday was the news that German lawmakers, in the wake of their Austrian counterparts, voted 439-119 in favor of opening detailed discussions on the bailout package.

The new ministers are expected to be sworn in on Saturday.

Dimitris Vitsas was appointed new alternate defence minister, replacing Costas Isichos, another SYRIZA lawmaker who voted against the agreement. But nearly a fifth of Merkel’s conservatives voted “no” in a blow to the chancellor.

Under the deal, Iran will cut by about two-thirds the number of centrifuges – which can make fuel for nuclear power stations but also the core of a nuclear bomb – from around 19,000 to just over 6,000.

The dissenters’ decision, Tsipras said, forced him to continue governing with a minority government until Greece’s bailout deal is concluded – something expected to take a month or more. “But I believe we will be able to resolve them”.

We are certain to encounter problems in the years to come.

The Europeans insisted on the Greek Parliament voting for these tough measures as they say Greece suffers from a huge “trust deficit” and that they need some assurance that the Greeks are honest about implementation.

However, since the critical July 9 date has passed, the Congress will have 60, instead of 30 days, to review the final comprehensive nuclear agreement, if it is reached between Iran and the P51 group.

“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.

Several sources said there was consensus among the other 18 ministers around the table during the “exceptionally difficult” talks that the leftist government in Athens must take further steps to convince them it would honor any new debts.

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.

The eurozone turned the screw after finance ministers finished two days of intense talks on Greece’s reform proposals drawn up to satisfy its global creditors – the EU, the European Central Bank and the global Monetary Fund.

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...

Greek lawmakers have approved a government motion seeking authorization for reform proposals as a basis for negotiations for a third bailout in talks with global creditors this weekend.

Lawmakers in the Greek parliament overwhelmingly backed a package of economic reforms and further austerity measures, in the hope that it would convince European creditors to back a third bailout of the country.