(Wall Street Journal) Stacy Meichtry and Gerard Baker - France's foreign minister Laurent Fabius voiced doubts that Western powers will reach a final nuclear deal with Iran, questioning Tehran's willingness to abandon its ability to build an atomic bomb. Disagreements have already arisen over how to implement a preliminary accord that temporarily freezes Iran's nuclear program in exchange for limited relief from sanctions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Fabius said, "We have to implement honestly the first phase. Then my main concern is the second phase. It is unclear if the Iranians will accept to definitively abandon any capacity of getting a weapon or only agree to interrupt the nuclear program." "What is at stake is to ensure that there is no breakout capacity," he added. "What we have to do is act in such a way that cheating is in practice impossible."
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