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The negotiations entered their 15th day Saturday with no indications of major progress after three extensions and four target dates for a deal, and diplomats said it remained unclear whether an agreement could be reached by Monday, the latest deadline.

Iran has been consistently supporting the struggle against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group and eliminating this threat, Lavrov said. The goal an agreement that would lift sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme for at least a decade.

Iran has offered “constructive solutions” to resolve disputes in nuclear talks with six major powers, the Iranian Students News Agency reported on Wednesday, but Western officials suggested they had heard nothing new from Tehran. His Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,...

Warning that such “difficult decisions don’t become easier over time”, he said: “One way or the other those decisions must be taken very soon”.

All bets remained off as negotiators held back-to-back meetings before Friday’s effective deadline, hoping to end a 13-year standoff with Iran over its suspect nuclear programme.

After failing to make a June 30 deadline, global powers have given themselves until Tuesday to try to reach an accord putting a nuclear bomb out of Iran’s reach. Foreign ministers from major powers began crunch talks in Vienna on Monday seeking to seal a historic nuclear...

The main burden of proof, however, should fall not on Obama but on skeptics of a nuclear deal with Iran. “But there are always issues which require special attention on our part, and I am glad that we have an opportunity to talk about this today”, Putin said. He says...

“I haven’t seen anything new from Iran”, a Western diplomat close to the talks told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Officials from both sides warned however that success was far from guaranteed.