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Iranian nuclear talks go on even if 'clock strikes midnight'

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Iran nuclear deal must withstand the test of time and "we will not be rushed" as negotiations continue past a US congressional deadline.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talks to journalists in front of Palais Coburg, the hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna, Austria July 9, 2015. The United States and other major powers are not in a rush reach a nuclear agreement with Iran, though Washington and its partners will not negotiate with Tehran indefinitely, Kerry said on Thursday.   REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger - RTX1JS36

VIENNA — US Secretary of State John Kerry said an Iran nuclear deal would require more work to be able to withstand the test of time, as negotiators from Iran and six world powers blew through a July 10 congressional deadline after which they would have to submit a prospective deal for a 60-day congressional review.

“We will not be rushed,” Kerry told journalists July 9 outside Vienna's Coburg Palace hotel, where Kerry had held intense negotiations with members of the P5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) as well as one-on-one talks with the Iranian foreign minister.

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