Criticizing deal with Iran 'premature': US
Iran Press TV
Fri Nov 8, 2013 6:2PM GMT
The administration of US President Barack Obama says it is "premature" to criticize a deal being discussed in Geneva over Iran's nuclear energy program.
"There is no deal, but there is an opportunity here for a possible diplomatic solution, and that is exactly what we are pursuing," Josh Earnest, deputy White House spokesman, said Thursday to reporters traveling with Obama on Air Force One to New Orleans.
"So any critique of the deal is premature," Ernest added.
The deputy White House spokesman's remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , infuriated by a possible deal between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany in Geneva, called it "a very, very bad deal."
Netanyahu made his remarks after US Secretary of State John Kerry headed to Geneva for talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton.
The recent round of nuclear talks between Iran and the US, Britain, Russia, China, France, and Germany in Geneva started on Thursday.
Shortly after he arrived in Geneva on Friday, Kerry said no agreement has yet been reached "at this point,' adding there were important issues that remained unresolved.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said an initial nuclear deal is possible after the trilateral talks between Zarif, Kerry, and Ashton.
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