US stretching Iran talks over domestic issues: Pundit

Press TV has interviewed Flynt Leverett, a professor at the Pennsylvania State University from Vienna, and Lawrence Korb, a former assistant to US secretary of defense from Washington, to discuss the talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries including the US, the UK, France, Russia, China and Germany, over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Leverett believes Iran and the P5+1 are “on the verge of an agreement,” because “all of the major issues have been worked out.”

Blaming the United States for the 'slow trend' of finalizing the talks, he says Washington is reviewing all aspects of a text agreed upon by Iran and the P5+1 to make sure about the conclusion of nuclear talks.

He says the administration of President Barack Obama wants to convince the American public that the US negotiating team has not rushed to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran, adding that the delay in the announcement of such an agreement comes over the US domestic politics.

Pointing to the relations between Iran and the United States after a possible conclusion of the nuclear talks, the professor maintains that a broader realignment with Tehran is in Washington’s interest, but Israel and Saudi Arabia are trying to make sure there would not be any rapprochement between Tehran and Washington.

For his part, Korb thinks Iran and the P5+1 group are in the last step of the negotiations on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

He adds Iran is still abiding by the Lausanne agreement on its nuclear activities and there is a good mood to find a solution for outstanding issues.

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