US official: Iran nuclear talks positions 'inadequate and unworkable'
Source: Guardian
• Anonymous official: US and Iran 'very far apart on some issues'
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Iran has stuck to "inadequate and unworkable" positions in nuclear talks with six world powers despite a looming deadline for a deal to end sanctions against Tehran in exchange for curbs on its atomic programme, a US official said on Saturday.
"We are very far apart on some issues,” including on uranium enrichment, the senior administration official told reporters, on condition of anonymity.
Another senior US official added that it was difficult to consider extending the negotiations with Iran beyond the 20 July deadline, without first seeing "significant progress on key issues" in negotiations between Iran and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.
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Iran's deputy foreign minister spoke on Saturday of "huge and deep" differences between the two sides. But Abbas Araghchi also told Iranian TV that "if no breakthrough is achieved, it doesn't mean that [the] talks have failed”.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/12/us-united-nuclear-china-russia
Let's face it, it's the conservative hard-liners in Iran who are causing the problems.
Just like they cause problems in every country, including the U.S.
"Instead of enhancing Iran's energy security, the nuclear program has diminished the country's ability to diversify and achieve real energy independence."
- Federation of American Scientists and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014442782
Associated Press
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI January 13, 2014 3:19 PM
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's reformers and moderate conservatives welcomed an agreement Monday between Iran and six world powers on how to implement a nuclear deal struck in November, saying it will shore up Iran's sanctions-hit economy. Hard-liners however inside the Islamic Republic remain opposed.
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https://news.yahoo.com/iranians-welcome-nuclear-deal-hardliners-oppose-164236072.html
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