Austria: FM Lavrov and FM Zarif lead Iran nuclear talks on deadline day

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met for bilateral talks in Vienna, Tuesday, on "deadline day" in the latest round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 powers. The self-imposed deadline, however, is unlikely to be kept to, with all parties focussed on the achievements made thus far and not on what has yet to be achieved. Negotiators from Russia, China, France, Germany, UK, US and Iran started to convene in Vienna last week to try and reach a final agreement on the nuclear deal, ending a decade-long standoff between the West and Iran. In April the group of international mediators and Iran reached a general political framework in Lausanne, Switzerland, to remove sanctions against Iran in return for Tehran decreasing the number of centrifuges and its uranium enrichment activities.