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Deal with Iran is better than no deal: Brzezinski

Monday, 06 July 2015 12:03 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 06 July 2015 12:06 AM ]

Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski

US foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski has called on the United States to seal a nuclear agreement with Iran.

Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, made the remarks in a message posted on his Twitter account on Friday.

“As the Mideast grows increasingly chaotic, it’s smarter to increase stability, not reduce it. A deal with Iran is better than no deal,” Brzezinski wrote.

Representatives from Iran and the P5+1 – the US, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany – are engaged in intense negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program.

The two sides extended their self-imposed end-of-June deadline for a comprehensive deal to July 7.

On Sunday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said "genuine progress"has been made during negotiations in Vienna.

"Over the past few days we have in fact made genuine progress, but I want to be absolutely clear with everybody we are not yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues," Kerry told reporters in the Austrian capital.

"At this point negotiations could go either way," he said. "If hard choices get made in the next couple of days and made quickly we could get an agreement this week. But if they are not made, we will not."

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