In his exclusive interview to Reuters the US president Barack Obama commented on the Iran nuclear negotiation calling the Iranians serious negotiators. On the occasion he particularly stated:
"I would say that it is probably still more likely than not that Iran doesn’t get to 'yes,' but I think that, in fairness to them, they have been serious negotiators and they’ve got their own politics inside of Iran. It is more likely that we could get a deal now than perhaps three or five months ago,"- he said.
In his interview Obama also commented on the most controversial issue in negotiation contending that Iran should agree to freezing its sensitive nuclear activity at least to 10 years:
"If, in fact, Iran is willing to agree to double-digit years of keeping their program where it is right now and, in fact, rolling back elements of it that currently exist ... if we’ve got that, and we’ve got a way of verifying that, there’s no other steps we can take that would give us such assurance that they don’t have a nuclear weapon," he said," Obama noted.
A day ahead Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is going to address the Congress against the US position in Iran Nuclear deal, Obama strongly criticized Netanyahu's stance noting that there was a "substantial disagreement" between them over how to achieve their shared goal of preventing Israel's arch foe from acquiring nuclear weapons.