Iran, world powers hold 'substantive and useful' nuclear talks

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Source: Reuters

Iran and six world powers held "substantive and useful" expert-level talks over Tehran's nuclear program this week, they said on Friday, ahead of a new round of political negotiations later this month.

Seeking to build on an interim agreement reached late last year in Geneva, Iran and the major powers aim to hammer out a final settlement of the decade-old dispute over the Islamic Republic's atomic activities by late July.

Both sides have made clear their political will to reach a long-term accord and have scheduled a series of meetings in the coming months. But they also acknowledge that there are still big differences over the future scope of Iran's nuclear program and that success is far from guaranteed.

The March 5-7 talks at the United Nations complex in Vienna, which ended around midday on Friday, were to prepare for the next meeting of chief negotiators due to start on March 18, also in the Austrian capital.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-iran-nuclear-experts-idUSBREA260MF20140307

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1. Geez - the State Department has been working round the clock for almost a year now.

If this was Bush WH managing all these events the mainstream press would be fawning all over them.