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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...

“We are here because we believe we are making real progress toward a comprehensive deal”, Mr. Kerry told reporters outside the Coburg Palais hotel in Vienna.

But Iran has been objecting strenuously. Officials on Tuesday missed a self-imposed deadline to complete the deal, and now hope to wrap up on Friday. Current intelligence estimates put the Iranians only two to three months away from amassing enough material for a nuclear warhead,...

“On any given day, if we feel that we’re just not going to get there, that will be that”. “Either this works in the next 48 hours or it doesn’t”.

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

A nuclear deal with Iran is “very close” after nearly two years of negotiations, the EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said. In many ways, this negotiation has been going on for literally a number of years.

Vienna: A nuclear deal with Iran is “very close” after nearly two years of negotiations, the EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.

Blocking a deal would require a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, because Obama would be expected to veto any attempt to stop a deal his administration believes will cut off Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon.

He’ll later talk to chief European Union diplomat Federica Mogherini and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.