"President Obama has been crystal clear," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday. "Don't rush. We're not in a rush. We need to get the right deal. No deal is better than a bad deal. And we are certainly adhering to that concept."
Kerry's comments come on the heels of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's assertion that he won't be pushed into a deal.
Nuclear rights "in the international framework, including uranium enrichment, on its soil," Rouhani said, are not negotiable. "For us red lines are not crossable."
On Saturday, Rouhani and other Iran officials lashed out at France, saying the country's representatives for Israel.
"I'd say a number of nations, not just the French, but ourselves and others wanted to make sure that we had the tough language necessary, the clarity in the language necessary to be absolutely certain that we were doing the job and not granting more or doing something sloppily that could wind up a mistake," Kerry said.
"This is serious business," Kerry continued. "And I think every country came there. This is the first time that the P5 had come together with this kind of a serious set of possible options in front of it with a new Iranian government. Remember that this has changed since the election. This is a new overture. And it has to be put to the test very, very carefully."
Kerry was asked if he was "being skeptical enough" about Rouhani, who has been called a "wolf in sheep's clothing."
"Some of the most serious and capable expert people in our government who have spent a lifetime dealing both with Iran, as well as with nuclear weapons and nuclear armament and proliferation are engaged in our negotiation," he said. "We are not blind, and I don't think we're stupid
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