Obama Makes Statement On Iran “Deal” – Live Webcast

Update: here is the statement by Obama, not to be confused with the statement Netanyahu is about to make and which may be measured in the kilotons.
In the same style as we have grown used to around the world, a major negotiation has ended with all sides claiming victory and no sides offering any actual solutions. Iran proclaims the talks have made “significant progress,” yet Western diplomats are saying progress is “limited,” only to be confused even more by Iran’s Foreign Minister stating that “but still we have not agreed on the reviewed solutions.” So in summing it all up, a press conference will be held shortly to explain that ‘they agree on the outline of a plan which will pave the way for an agreement but aren’t sure how much of the plan or hypothetical agreement they want to share’. New normal geopolitics… no deal is the new deal.
Nuclear talks between the Iranian delegation and foreign ministers of the P5 1 group might bear fruit on Thursday, RT reports, if the sides manage to agree certain solutions.
Western negotiators are saying progress is ‘limited.’
However, Reuters cited Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying: “We have made significant progress in the talks, but still we have not agreed on the reviewed solutions.”
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The meeting has been going on through the night between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart.
The German and French foreign ministers are also present, as well as the UK foreign secretary and European Union negotiator Helga Schmid.
The foreign ministers of China, Russia and France left the country on Tuesday after the initial deadline passed, saying they would return when necessary.
‘We are a few meters from the finishing line, but it’s always the last meters that are the most difficult. We will try and cross them,’ French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in Switzerland on Wednesday night when he returned to negotiations.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 04/02/2015.