Following the failure of reaching a deal with Iran in the latest 4-day round of talks in Geneva, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that the West remains united on reaching a deal with Iran that would lead to it abandoning any efforts to build nuclear weapons.

“I think there was unity (among western diplomats) there, David, with respect to getting it right,” Kerry told NBC’s David Gregory on Meet the Press. “And we all have said, President Obama has been crystal clear. Don’t rush. We’re not in a rush. We need to get the right deal. No deal is better than a bad deal.”

”We are absolutely determined that this would be a good deal, or there’ll be no deal,: he added.

“We are not blind, and I don’t think we’re stupid. I think we have a pretty strong sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interests of our country and of the globe,” Kerry emphasized.

“And I can tell you without any exaggeration we not only narrowed differences and clarified those that remain, but we made significant progress in working through the approaches to this question of how one brings in a program that guarantees this peaceful nature,” he said.

“There’s no question in my mind that we are closer now, as we leave Geneva, than we were when we came, and that with good work and good faith over the course of the next weeks, we can in fact secure our goal.”

Meanwhile Rouhani on his Twitter account repeated a statement he had made to the Iranian parliament Sunday after the failure of the talks. “For us, there are red lines that cannot be crossed. Our national interests are our red lines – incl enrichment & other rights under intl law,” Rouhani said.

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)