Whom can we trust? Neither of them. New Iran agreement includes secret side deal, Tehran official says

It is all disturbing, but it is difficult to find honor, let alone honesty, from the batch of thieves connected with this saber rattling farce they play called brinkmanship. We, the citizens inside the borders of all the countries at play, are the ones to suffer. The worst part of all is that our "leaders" and diplomats don't feel we, the "little" people, are worthy of knowing what is contained in this dangerous agreement. m/r

New Iran agreement includes secret side deal, Tehran official says - latimes.com
By Paul Richter This post has been updated. See note below for details.

January 13, 2014, 

WASHINGTON – Key elements of a new nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers are contained in an informal, 30-page text not yet publicly acknowledged by Western officials, Iran’s chief negotiator said Monday.

Abbas Araqchi disclosed the existence of the document in a Persian-language interview with the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency.

The new agreement, announced over the weekend, sets out a timetable for how Iran and the six nations, led by the United States, will implement a deal reached in November that is aimed at restraining Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

When officials from Iran and the world powers announced that they had completed the implementing agreement, they didn’t release the text of the deal, nor did they acknowledge the existence of an informal addendum.

In the interview, Araqchi referred to the side agreement using the English word “nonpaper,” a diplomatic term used for an informal side agreement that doesn’t have to be disclosed publicly.

The nonpaper deals with such important details as the operation of a joint commission to oversee how the deal is implemented and Iran’s right to continue nuclear research and development during the next several months, he said.

Araqchi described the joint commission as an influential body that will have authority to decide disputes. U.S. officials have described it as a discussion forum rather than a venue for arbitrating major disputes.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the text of the implementing agreement would be released to lawmakers. He said the six parties were weighing how much of the text they could release publicly.

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