Quotable quotes on a deal with Iran

Quotable quotes on a deal with Iran | Power Line

* Defecting Rouhani aide speaking in Lausanne: “The U.S. negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal.”

* While the West makes concessions, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards central Baij militia unit — one Mohammad Reza Naqdi — asserted on Tuesday that “erasing Israel off the map” is “non-negotiable[.]”

* Taking a different line from Obama’s cheerleaders at the New York Times, The Times of London editorializes (behind the Times of London’s subscription paywall): “If a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme is clinched, it will be hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough. It will be nothing of the kind. If the framework agreement is signed on the basis of current drafts it will a reckless recasting of the Middle East. The determination to notch up at least one success in Middle East peacemaking has, however, led Mr Obama to make ill-considered concessions…The deal is flawed and … naive. Instead of containing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, this deal may simply give Tehran carte blanche to plan a future with its own bomb.”