An Iran Deal, At Last
By Robin Wright
By Robin Wright
After
nineteen days of marathon negotiations and four missed deadlines, Iran and the
world’s six major powers announced a nuclear deal in Vienna this morning. The
exhaustive and elusive diplomacy—sustained by an unsettling combination of
Twizzlers, gelato, string cheese, and Rice Krispies treats—was dicey to the
end. Secretary of State John Kerry wasn’t sure that the often volatile talks
would succeed, until Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, showed up
at Kerry’s working quarters, in Room 103 of the opulent Palais Coburg, just
before midnight Monday.
“This
has always been a Rubik’s Cube,” a senior U.S. negotiator told me. “In the
early morning hours of July 14th, the last cubes clicked into place. It was an
incredibly arduous and incredibly complex process.”
It was also the
longest mission of a Secretary of State in more than three decades. Since
October, 2013, Kerry has flown some four hundred thousand miles—the equivalent
of circling the world sixteen times—to prevent a tenth country from getting the
bomb. Read on....
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