The Hill – April 05, 2015 – President Obama’s energy chief, a top U.S. negotiator during last week’s Iran talks, said Sunday he prays Tehran abides by a tentative agreement well into the future.
“Hopefully they will comply for a long time,” Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said of the preliminary nuclear agreement.
 “This is a long-term arrangement,” he added. “We have blocked all of these pathways to a bomb.”
Moniz said that it did not resolve other concerns America had with Iranian leadership.
“First of all, there is no question we will have many more issues with Iran,” Moniz argued.
“This agreement in no way lessens our working against them and supporting our friends and allies in the region very strongly,” he said.
Obama has long argued diplomacy is the best strategy for preventing a nuclear Iran. But Netanyahu has countered that Tehran has previously proven untrustworthy and endangers global security.
Thursday’s rough sketch of a bargain came with broad international support. Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia helped U.S. efforts in outlining a possible accord
The U.S. and its allies hope Iran will phase out its nuclear weapons research in exchange for economic sanctions relief. They have set June 30 as the deadline for a final deal.