{"id":1170,"date":"2015-02-23T08:10:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-02-23T08:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T08:10:56","slug":"iran-nuclear-talks-end-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/iran-nuclear-talks-end-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran nuclear talks end in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry have ended a first leg of talks to resolve the remaining issues on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program as a deadline for reaching an inclusive agreement draws closer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The negotiations which began late Sunday in the Swiss city of Geneva ended after 2.5 hours with the two sides agreeing on resuming negotiations on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A source in the Iranian negotiating team said that the agenda for Monday is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting between the two top diplomats was delayed for several hours due to Kerry\u2019s late arrival from London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ali Akbar Salehi, the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz also attended the talks. The high-ranking officials have already held two rounds of negotiations to discuss the technical aspects of Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian and US delegates, who attended a simultaneous meeting with negotiators from Russia, China, Germany, France and the UK, later joined talks between Zarif and Kerry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, the head of the Iranian delegation, said after the meeting with the P5+1 group in the EU mission building in Geneva that it is soon to claim any progress has been made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0talks are expected to continue on Monday at an expert level with discussions on the technical issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ongoing talks in Geneva, which kicked off on Friday, are among the last attempts by the involved parties to narrow\u00a0gaps on the remaining issues as a deadline for reaching a comprehensive deal on July 1 draws closer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two sides have missed two deadlines since an interim deal was signed in November 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MS\/NT\/AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry have ended a first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1,125],"tags":[24,30,108,7],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-united-states","tag-eu","tag-iran","tag-nuclear","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Iran-Nuclear-Talks.jpg?fit=650%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-iS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}