Emad Kiyaei, AIC Executive Director, stressed that a framework deal was inevitable since all parties had invested so much political capital in the nuclear negotiations.

When asked what has kept all parties from reaching a final agreement, Kiyaei responded, "There are two major issues, the first is on the Iranian side. They seek to have sanctions relief following a deal and for this comprehensive sanctions lifting to occur, it requires a major deal of negotiations on how it will go about, the time-frame in which lifting of sanctions will occur and also the multi-layered sanctions regime being placed on Iran may be from the United Nations, Security Council, the EU and also the unilateral sanctions the US placed on Iran."