WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that he could not envision a set of circumstances that would compel the United States to further extend the deadline for negotiating a deal on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
“The only chance that I can see of an extension at this point in time would be that you really have the outlines of the agreement. But if we are not able to make the fundamental decisions that have to be made over the course of the next weeks, literally, I think it would be impossible to extend. I don’t think we would want to extend at that point,” Kerry said in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
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“First, the president came to the caucus and made a very convincing case,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told The Huffington Post. “Second, since the sanctions don’t take effect till June and if you look at a good strong agreement as a much better alternative than anything else — and the president says he needs a month and a half — even if you don’t think the odds are great, you give it a chance and you’ve lost virtually nothing.”
