{"id":20284,"date":"2015-04-09T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T14:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20284"},"modified":"2015-04-09T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T14:43:34","slug":"iran-lift-sanctions-immediately-or-no-final-nuke-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/09\/iran-lift-sanctions-immediately-or-no-final-nuke-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Lift sanctions immediately or no final nuke deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Today<\/em> has the story Iran: Lift sanctions immediately or no final nuke deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a televised address Thursday at a ceremony marking Iran’s nuclear technology day, President Hassan Rouhani appeared to rule out a gradual removal of the sanctions, which have hit the nation’s energy and financial sectors hard \u2014 and devastated its economy.<\/p>\n

“We will not sign any agreement, unless all economic sanctions are totally lifted on the first day of the implementation of the deal,” he said. “We want a win-win deal for all parties involved in the nuclear talks.”<\/p>\n

“The Iranian nation has been and will be the victor in the negotiations,” he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It all sounded pretty reasonable until that last sentence.\u00a0 Perhaps something got lost in translation.\u00a0 It wouldn’t be the first time.<\/p>\n

The article shows a tweet from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All #sanctions should be removed just when the deal is reached. If sanctions removal depends on another process then why we started to talk?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s something I have been wondering myself.<\/p>\n

As for the negotiations final outcome, I will have to defer to Yogi Berra<\/a>, who once said “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA Today has the story Iran: Lift sanctions immediately or no final nuke deal. In a televised address Thursday at a ceremony marking Iran’s nuclear technology day, President Hassan Rouhani appeared to rule out a gradual removal of the sanctions, which have hit the nation’s energy and financial sectors hard \u2014 and devastated its economy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20285,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions\/20285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}