Iran Talks Fail
No deal by deadline as sides agree to reconvene in December

BY: Adam Kredo
November 24, 2014 7:50 am

VIENNA—Iran and Western nations failed to reach a final nuclear deal by Monday’s deadline and have now agreed to extend talks into December and potentially further, according to Western officials and the Iranian state media.

Negotiations over the past few days have been tense, with both sides acknowledging a lack of progress in what was supposed to be the final round of negotiations this week over Iran’s contested nuclear program.

The parties now claim that last-minute progress in the talks warrant an extension into December—and likely thorough July 2015—though the sides have yet to decide upon a location for continued negotiations, according to a Western source cited by the Associated Press.

The impasse between the parties, which has been described by Secretary of State John Kerry as “serious,” appears to center on the eventual size of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. Tehran is angling to retain large portions of its program, while the West seeks to limit the number of nuclear centrifuges Iran can operate.

The talks will be extended until July 2015.

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