As Secretary of State John Kerry and other foreign ministers head to Vienna for what is supposed to be the final week of talks before a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran, it is still far from clear that such an agreement will be reached. Both sides clearly have a strong interest in getting to yes.
By agreeing in the April 2015 Lausanne framework to difficult points like reducing the size of their fissile material stockpile by 97 percent, cutting by two-thirds their number of installed centrifuges and dismantling their plutonium producing heavy water nuclear reactor at Arak, the Iranians have shown they are willing to make painful concessions in the name of a deal, and President Hassan Rouhani—who campaigned on a platform of fixing the economy—would have trouble explaining to Iranians why he walked away from sanctions relief if he overplays his hand this week and the deal falls apart.
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