LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The United States said March 27 that it was time for Iran to make some tough decisions to conclude a political agreement on a final nuclear deal in the next few days, as the United States and Iran signaled talks are likely to go down to the wire. Iran’s negotiators said there are still tough decisions on unresolved issues, but said negotiators from all sides are holding ongoing consultations to try to find solutions to overcome remaining differences.
The past two days’ talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif “have been tough and very serious,” a senior State Department official told journalists at the talks March 27. “We’re at the point in the negotiations when we really need to see decisions being made. We will test whether that is truly possible over the next several days.”
