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Iran nuclear talks extended for lack of a deal

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The six world powers and the Iranian regime agreed on Monday to extend their talks over the Tehran’s nuclear program until July 2015, after being virtually impossible to reach a comprehensive deal by today’s deadline.

The talks, which have been conducted in Vienna, are now set to resume in December at a site yet to be determined.

Under the terms of limited agreements reached after a frenetic six days of talks in Vienna, a political accord is to be completed by March 1, with final details contained in annexes to be sealed by July 1, the diplomats said.

The negotiators had set a deadline of midnight Monday to come to a final agreement on a mechanism whereby the Iranian regime’s pathways to develop a nuclear weapon would be closed in return for relief from international sanctions.

Instead, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said it “was not possible to meet the deadline” due to wide gaps on well-known points of contention, including levels of uranium enrichment and the number of centrifuges Iran would be allowed to operate.

He stressed that while July 1 was the new deadline for a comprehensive deal, the expectation was that broad agreement would be in place by March 1.