Press TV: Iran nuclear talks end in Vienna, new deadline set for July 1
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (4th L), US Secretary of State
John Kerry (L), EU nuclear negotiator, Catherine Ashton, (2nd R), and
foreign ministers of the P5+1 pose for a photo during a meeting in Vienna on
November 24, 2014.
PRESSTV Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:26AM GMT
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/11/24/387296/us-offers-postdeadline-iran-talks/

Press TV reports from Vienna that the nuclear talks between Iran and the
so-called P5+1 group of countries have ended with the two sides agreeing to
extend the Joint Plan of Action to July 1, 2015.

US Secretary of State John Kerry had earlier told his Iranian counterpart
Mohammad Javad Zarif that the two sides needed to consider extending nuclear
talks.

Washington's offer of post-deadline talks, published by US media, was made
in bilateral talks between the top Iranian and American diplomats and
endorsed during Monday's meeting between the seven countries' top diplomats.

Meanwhile, Press TV has learned that major gaps still remain as both sides
step up their diplomatic efforts in the next weeks.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday that Iran and the
P5+1 countries made significant progress in the latest round of talks in
Vienna.

Iran, the United States, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain held
nearly a week of intense negotiations on how to tackle the remaining
obstacles that do exist in the way of reaching an agreement.

Under the Joint Plan of Action reached between the two sides in November
2013, a final comprehensive deal aims to give assurances that Tehran’s
nuclear program is exclusively peaceful and, at the same time, lift all
sanctions imposed against the Iranian nation over the country’s nuclear
energy program.

Iran has repeatedly said its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes,
including generating electricity and making radio-isotopes for its one
million cancer patients.

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