VIENNA — US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mostly stayed huddled in meetings behind closed doors at nuclear talks at a Vienna hotel on Nov. 21, with each canceling earlier announced plans to leave Vienna for further consultations.
Negotiators from both the United States and Iran have suggested in recent days that they would like to reach at least a framework agreement toward the comprehensive accord by the Nov. 24 deadline or shortly thereafter, rather than work on an extension of the current interim deal. But gaps on the issues of enrichment capacity, sanctions relief and the duration of a deal remained going into these latest high-stakes talks on the eve of the deadline.
