CAREFUL! – AT 10:58 A.M. ET:  With the virtual collapse of the Israel-Palestinian peace talks, and our inability to do anything about Ukraine, and the ongoing horror of Syria, and...and...other bad stuff, the Obamans will be looking for a foreign-policy success.  Given who's in charge, this is the time to be ultra-careful.  We're dealing now with Iran.  From The Hill:

The United States and other world powers will begin drafting a comprehensive final nuclear deal with Iran next month, a U.S. official said Friday.

Negotiators have made progress in the nuclear talks, the official said.

The Obama administration and its partners in the P5+1 want to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, and Iran wants relief from sanctions that have hurt its economy in recent years.
Diplomats will meet for a third round of negotiations next week in Vienna, Austria.

The meetings result from the six-month interim deal struck last November to slow Iran’s nuclear program. After taking effect in January, the United Nations says Iran is complying with its requirements so far.

COMMENT:  I think we have every reason to worry about this.  What kind of "progress" are they talking about?  If there's been real, meaningful progress, we'd know about it by now.  Everyone would be crowing.

I fear that the "comprehensive final nuclear deal" will be neither final nor comprehensive.  Most of the Europeans, especially the Germans, don't care.  They just want to do business in Iran.  American companies are also lining up.  Boeing was just given permission by the Obamans to sell spare aircraft parts to the Iranians.  Kind of reminds me of how we sold scrap iron to Japan before World War II.  It came back to us shaped as bullets. 

The Iranians will make some concessions, but I'm guessing there'll be sufficient wiggle room and lack of transparency in the "final" agreement to let them go right on with their nuclear program, which is what they're doing now.  It is no secret, as the Soviets used to put it, that Obama wants to reset American relations with Iran.  He'll be too eager.

April 5, 2014