The Gray Areas in the Iran Deal

How a pre-dawn meeting in Switzerland produced one of the Iran deal's many fuzzy areas.

In the dead of night Wednesday night in Lausanne, Switzerland, Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz and his Iranian counterpart haggled over one of the last issues holding up a nuclear agreement with world powers: Iran’s future research into next-generation new centrifuge designs that can accelerate its path to a nuclear weapon. The meeting finally wrapped up at 6 a.m., said a senior administration official, “and that is not because we were up early.”  But how that key issue was resolved remains fuzzy. (Read More)