Tortuous talks towards a Iran Nuclear deal ploughed on Friday with the head of the UN’s atomic watchdog having apparently failed in Tehran to advance a Nuclear bomb probe, a major hurdle to the accord.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff, Mohammad Nahavandian, meanwhile headed to the negotiations in Vienna, in what the official IRNA news agency called a “special mission”.
“Important progress has been made but questions on technical issues and the wording (of the deal) remain,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on a seventh day of negotiations.
“My impression is that the political will (to get a deal) exists but that this has not yet been transmitted to the bureaucrats” working on the text, Zarif, due to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry later, told Iranian television.