Top Iranian, US Diplomats Hold Nuclear Talks in Vienna
VIENNA (Tasnim) – Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry met in the Austrian capital on Sunday looking for ways to narrow down differences over a comprehensive nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers.
The two top diplomats held a meeting at Vienna's Palais Coburg hotel to discuss the latest status of nuclear talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
They had met twice on Saturday.
The negotiating parties missed a June 30 deadline for a final agreement on Tehran's nuclear program, but gave themselves an extra week, until July 7.
Zarif and Kerry have remained in Vienna to try to finalize the long-awaited accord.
The other foreign ministers who left Vienna on Thursday are expected to rejoin their counterparts in a final push for a deal on Sunday, while China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected in Vienna on Monday.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (alternatively known as the P5+1 or E3+3) have been negotiating over the past 22 months to end more than a decade of standoff over Tehran's civilian nuclear program once and for all.
