There are some historic developments taking place in Geneva today/tonight/now:
From the WASHINGTON POST report file this hour by Anne Gearan and Joby Warrick:
Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.
The deal was reached after four days of marathon bargaining and an 11th-hour intervention by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other foreign ministers from Europe, Russia and China. the sources said.
The agreement, sealed at 3 a.m. signing ceremony in Geneva’s Palace of Nations, requires Iran to halt or scale back parts of it nuclear infrastructure, the first such pause in more than a decade.
The report goes on to say that this deal with make it virtually impossible for Tehran to build a nuclear weapon.. so we are told.
