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http://news.yahoo.com/iran-powers-set-miss-nuclear-talks-deadline-seek-145552386.htmlVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, the United States and other world powers are all but certain to miss Monday's deadline for negotiations to resolve a 12-year stand-off over Tehran's atomic ambitions, forcing them to seek an extension, sources say.
The talks in Vienna aim for a deal that could transform the Middle East, open the door to ending economic sanctions on Iran and start to bring a nation of 76 million people in from the cold after decades of hostility with the West.
But sources confirmed on Sunday what officials close to the talks have been predicting privately for weeks: that a final deal is still too far off to hammer out by the deadline.
"Considering the short time left until the deadline and number of issues that needed to be discussed and resolved, it is impossible to reach a final and comprehensive deal by Nov. 24," Iran's ISNA news agency quoted an unidentified member of the country's negotiating team in Vienna as saying.
"The issue of extension of the talks is an option on the table and we will start discussing it if no deal is reached by Sunday night," the official said.
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-nuclear-talks-may-focus-extension-soon-103056939.htmlVIENNA (AP) — Prospects of a nuclear deal with Iran by a deadline slipped further away Sunday despite frenzied last-minute diplomacy, forcing the U.S. and partner nations to start working on ways to extend the talks, diplomats said.
Two Western diplomats said talks were continuing with Iran on trying to bridge differences on reducing Tehran's ability to make nuclear weapons to levels acceptable to Washington while giving the Islamic republic the relief it seeks from international sanctions over its atomic activities.
At the same time, they said negotiators from the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany had begun looking at possible scenarios for extensions past the deadline at midnight Monday that they can present to Iran.
The development reinforced growing expectations since the start of the current round Tuesday that the U.S.-Iran dispute would prove unsurmountable by the target date.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting Sunday evening with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. One of the diplomats said Kerry and Zarif could start floating the need to focus on going past the Monday deadline discussions at that point.