article_snippet: We're negotiating a plan that will have in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the capacity for enforcement.
article_snippet: We don't even have diplomatic relations with Iran right now.'
article_snippet: And around the world today we have all kinds of executive agreements that we deal with,' including 'any number of noncontroversial, broadly supported foreign policy goals.'
article_snippet: Neither the U.S. nor Iran has emphasized the need for a legally binding deal because each has stronger forms of leverage.
article_snippet: If Iran cheats, the Obama administration has spoken of re-imposing suspended sanctions.
article_snippet: U.S. has also held out the prospect of military action if Iran makes progress toward a nuclear weapon.
article_snippet: Similarly, if U.S. U.S. doesn't live up to U.S. side of the bargain, the Iranians can ramp up enrichment levels of uranium, taking the Iranians closer to nuclear weapons capacity.
article_snippet: Negotiators from the U.S., Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia hope to seal a framework with Iran by month's end and a comprehensive agreement by July.
article_snippet: Questions about the process involved in any agreement with Shiite-majority Iran are sensitive for a variety of reasons.
article_snippet: Israel, Sunni Arab countries and many U.S. lawmakers are concerned that international negotiators could be placing too much trust in Iran.
article_snippet: The prospects of a 'nonbinding' pact will hardly alleviate Israel, Sunni Arab countries and many U.S. lawmakers concerns, even if none of Israel, Sunni Arab countries and many U.S. lawmakers have professed faith in Iran abiding by the terms of an agreement that would ease sanctions in exchange for at least a decade of strict limits on the Iranian nuclear program.
article_snippet: Iran says the Iranian nuclear program is solely for peaceful energy and medical research purposes.
article_snippet: U.S. negotiators have been more circumspect.