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Nations plus Germany on November 24 in Geneva has raised hullabaloo in the United States of America along with its strong allies of Israel in particular. A few members of the Congress from the Republican Party along with a few members of the Democratic Party have raised negative voice against the deal with Iran while both President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have urged congress not to initiate any bill for further economic sanction against Iran to spoil future comprehensive deal with Iran. Possibly most critics of the deal could not understand that interim deal with Iran by the West in three decades is basically confidencebuilding measures between Iran and the West until comprehensive deal is 7 The interim deal on nuclear program with Iran by five permanent members of the Security Council of the United struck in six months‘ time.US Secretary of State‘s personal diplomacy played a great role to bring down differences in approach between Iran and the west which has been reflected in the words of William Hague, Foreign Secretary of the Great Britain while addressing lawmakers of the House of Commons in London on November 25 on the deal with Iran. British Foreign Secretary is on record by saying that ―I particularly want to pay tribute to the work of Secretary of State Kerry, who has been so determined throughout the negotiations with Iran to make sure that this is a robust deal, that everything that should be covered is covered and that every commitment that we wanted from Iran is as strong as it should be. And he has done that, and I really pay tribute to his persistence and his leadership in doing that‖. I was listening to the debate in the House of Commons broadcast by BBC. The deal was broadly welcomed by all parties in the Great Britain. Jack Straw‘s, former Foreign Secretary of Labor Party, comments were interesting indeed. He asked a question whether the rest of negotiating countries would go along in case Congress in US goes against the interim deal. In reply, British Foreign Secretary said Secretary of State and the President of the United States are on the strong line of defense o