MESOP : A HANDSOME DEAL OBAMA & IRAN – I GET AN AGREEMENT – YOU GET SYRIA ? (NEW YORK TIMES)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the nuclear negotiations in Vienna today to discuss Syria’s civil war and terrorist attacks by the Islamic State.

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