Time is running out, with Kerry and Mohammad Javad Zarif aiming to agree the outlines of a potentially historic agreement by the end of the month. A full accord is then due by July 1. Both men, meeting in a luxury hotel in the Swiss lakeside city of lausanne, are also under intense pressure from domestic hardliners worried they will give too much away. Speaking in Egypt over the weekend, Kerry sought to ease such concerns, saying that the aim is “not just to get any deal, it is to get the right deal”.
