Kerry: No decision on uranium enrichment in any interim Iran deal.

"Whatever a country decides or doesn't decide to do, or is allowed to do under the rules, depends on a negotiation," Kerry told reporters.

Kerry: No decision on uranium enrichment in any interim Iran deal.(JPost).

As US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday the issue of whether Iran will ultimately be allowed to enrich uranium will not be decided in an interim deal under discussion between major world powers and Iranian officials in Geneva.

"Whatever a country decides or doesn't decide to do, or is allowed to do under the rules, depends on a negotiation," Kerry told reporters.
"We are at the initial stage of determining whether or not there is a first step that could be taken, and that certainly will not be resolved in any first step, I can assure you," he added.
Meanwhile, the third round of nuclear talks that resumed in Geneva between the Islamic Republic and world powers on Wednesday ended after a brief fist session, AFP reported.
According to diplomats, the crunch negotiations lasted only five to 10 minutes.
"This was just a brief introductory session," AFP quoted an anonymous diplomat as saying."There will now be bilateral meetings."
A senior US administration official said earlier Wednesday it would be "very hard", though still possible, to reach an initial nuclear deal with Iran in talks in Geneva this week.
"I think we can (get a deal), whether we will, we will have to see because it is hard. It is very hard," the official told reporters after talks between six world powers and Iran resumed in the Swiss city.
The official also said that the vast majority of sanctions on Iran would remain in place after any preliminary accord on limiting its disputed nuclear program, and that Washington would "vigorously" implement them.
World powers resumed efforts to clinch a preliminary deal to curb Iran's nuclear program kicking off two days of closed-door nuclear talks in Geneva on Wednesday, with Russia and Britain confident that agreement can be reached.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier: "We hope the efforts that are being made will be crowned with success at the meeting that opens today in Geneva."
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran would not step back from its nuclear rights and he had set "red lines" for his negotiators in Geneva. But Tehran wanted friendly ties with all countries.
"We want to have friendly relations with all nations and peoples. The Islamic system isn't even hostile to the nation of America, although with regards to Iran and the Islamic system, the American government is arrogant, malicious and vindictive," Khamenei said, according to his official website.“
No! The threat … is the Zionist regime and some of its supporters,” he added angrily, as the Basij crowd burst into cries of “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”

Khamenei also criticized France, which had spoken against the deal as proposed earlier, for "succumbing to the United States" and "kneeling before the Israeli regime". France said the comments were unacceptable.