Iranian President Hassan Rohani is fighting a rearguard battle at home as his negotiating team prepares to finalize a framework agreed in early April with major powers that would allow UN inspectors access to Iranian nuclear facilities in return for a lifting of sanctions. As the end-June deadline draws closer, Rohani is walking a political tightrope: He knows that a failure to reach an agreement could cost him and his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, their political careers, while a deal that does not ensure a swift removal of sanctions would leave them open to charges of selling out to the West.
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