Kerry, Zarif in crucial nuclear talks ahead of June 30 deadline
GENEVA: Tehran rejected a key Western demand for site inspections on Saturday just as US secretary of state John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart launched crunch talks to secure a nuclear deal ahead of a looming deadline.
The Geneva talks between Kerry and foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the run-up to the June 30 deadline come amid heightened diplomatic moves to try and end a 12-year DALLAS: Heavy rain was pounding Dallas on Saturday as US authorities searched for 11 people still missing in the recordsetting storms that have submerged highways and flooded standoff and put a nuclear bomb beyond Iran’s reach. Kerry and Zarif huddled for negotiations in a leading hotel, greeting each other warmly and chatting as they walked together along the corridor to the meeting room.
Asked by a journalist whether they expected to meet the deadline, Zarif smiled and said: “We will try.” Kerry did not respond.
But even as talks got underway, senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi homes across Texas. At least 28 people have been killed nationwide in the storms, 24 of them in Texas. Rainfall records in the last week have been smashed across Texas - from Corpus Christi along told state television it would be “out of the question” for UN inspectors to question Iranian scientists and inspect military site inspections as part of a final nuclear deal with world powers. After an interim accord struck in Geneva in November 2013, the US and Iran are trying to nail the final details of a ground-breaking deal that would see Iran curtail its nuclear ambitions in return for a lifting of crippling sanctions. AFP the Gulf of Mexico to Gainesville near the Oklahoma border. Even Amarillo in the dusty Texas Panhandle is in its second wettest month on record, said meteorologist Dennis Cain. AP