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Iran nuclear talks intensify

Iran nuclear talks intensify as foreign ministers arrive; a possible accord to emerge this week may be a brief statement followed by further drafting.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (L) talks with Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi after an afternoon meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. officials at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne March 27, 2015. 
Major powers and Iran were pushing each other for concessions on Friday ahead of an end-March deadline for a preliminary nuclear deal, with Tehran demanding an immediate end to sanctions and freedom to continue sensitive atomic research, officials s

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The prospects for reaching a political agreement on an Iran nuclear accord over the coming days seemed to rise as foreign ministers from France, Germany and the European Union joined negotiations here March 28, but what is announced this week may be a fairly brief press statement followed by a few weeks of drafting a 10-20 page framework agreement, analysts said.

“I think we are very close,” Ali Vaez, senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, told Al-Monitor in Lausanne March 28.

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