Foreign Min-Tehran To Deliver Opinion On EU Nuclear Deal Text By End-Day

Wires carrying comments from Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on the proposed nuclear deal from the EU:

• "[We] are exchanging messages with the US side through intermediaries on three issues."
• "[Iran] has shown relative flexibility on two issues and in the third issue, which is guarantees, we are waiting for the flexibility of the U.S. side"
• "I anticipate that by the end of today we will submit our final opinion on the text proposed by the European Union to the Coordinator."
• [Iran is] looking for a good, stable and strong agreement, but if the other party speaks of plan B, we also have plan B."
• Earlier today, FM spox Nasser Kanani was more downbeat: "Whether we're close to an agreement and that this round of talks can near an agreement depends on the other side, particularly the US, meeting Iran's rightful demands,"