IRAN-NUCLEAR/TALKS ARRIVALS Iran talks resume as negotiations go into third extension in two weeks

Record ID: 147571

  • Title: IRAN-NUCLEAR/TALKS ARRIVALS Iran talks resume as negotiations go into third extension in two weeks
  • Date: 11th July 2015
  • Summary: VIENNA, AUSTRIA (JULY 11, 2015) (REUTERS) VENUE OF IRAN NEGOTIATIONS, PALAIS COBURG HOTEL ENTRANCE PALAIS COBURG SIGN ON WALL SECURITY SECURITY DOG SECURITY GUARD WALKING WITH DOG MOTORCADE WITH FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER LAURENT FABIUS FABIUS GETTING OUT OF CAR AND WALKING INTO HOTEL THROUGH BACK DOOR U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY ERNEST MONIZ'S MOTORCADE ARRIVING U.S. ENERGY SECRET
  • Embargoed: 26th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Austria
  • Country: Austria
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVACC6T3NDMSLDHEG36Z47GSWQIH
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Six world powers and Iran resumed meeting in Vienna on Saturday (July 11). Iran and major powers gave themselves until Monday (July 13) to reach a nuclear agreement, their third extension in two weeks, as Tehran accused the West of throwing up new stumbling blocks to a deal.
    Both sides say there has been progress in two weeks of talks, but British Secretary Philip Hammond on Friday called it "painfully slow" and he and his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, left on Friday but returned to Vienna on Saturday morning.
    Having missed a Friday (July 10) morning U.S. congressional deadline, U.S. and European Union officials said they were extending sanctions relief for Iran under an interim deal through Monday to provide more time for talks on a final deal.
    Iran and six powers - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States - are trying to end a more than 12-year dispute over Iran's atomic program by negotiating limits on its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
    The sides remain divided over issues that include a U.N. arms embargo on Iran which Western powers want to keep in place, access for inspectors to military sites in Iran and answers from Tehran over past activity suspected of military aims.
    Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a deal was unlikely to be reached on Friday and negotiators would probably spend the weekend in Vienna. He sought to blame the West for the impasse.
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