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US: Iran final deal talks 'complicated, difficult' but 'best chance'

Senior US officials have said that reaching a final deal with Iran will be difficult but that the current negotiating circumstances give the 'the best chance' the world has had to resolve concerns over Iran's nuclear program.
(L-R) China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Palais des Nations in Geneva November 24, 2013. Iran and six world powers reached a breakthrough agreement early on Sunday to curb Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for limited sanctions relief, in a first step towards re

VIENNA — On the eve of the opening round of negotiations to get a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran, a US diplomat said the process would be "complicated, difficult and lengthy," but that it represented "the best chance" the world has had in a decade to resolve concerns about Iran's nuclear program.

"These next days will be the beginning of what will be a complicated, difficult and lengthy process," the senior US Administration official, speaking not for attribution, told journalists here Monday night. "When the stakes are this high, the devil truly is in the details. It can't be done in a day, a week, or a month."

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