Iran nuclear negotiators have reached broad understanding, says UK

Source: The Guardian

Britain’s foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, has said negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks in Switzerland have reached “a broad framework of understanding”, but that details still have to be agreed.

Hammond was speaking after the negotiations missed a midnight deadline to produce a preliminary accord on the main issues in dispute in Iran’s nuclear programme. After breaking off in the early hours of the morning, talks among foreign ministers and senior diplomats are due to resume on Wednesday morning.

“I think we have a broad framework of understanding but there are still some key issues that have to be worked through,” the foreign secretary told a group of British broadcasters.

“We are now working on them this morning. I’m optimistic that we will make further progress this morning, but it does mean the Iranians being willing to meet us where there are still issues to deal with. Fingers crossed and we’ll hope to get there during the course of the day.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/iran-nuclear-negotiators-reach-broad-framework-of-understanding

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'Fingers crossed' by people all over Europe. The EU is on the front line and dealing directly with the fallout from its middle eastern neighbors. (flood of refugies, terrorist threats, etc. etc.)

This would bring Iran back into the international community, and we can hope, diffuse some of the tensions in the Middle East.