VIENNA (Tasnim) – Iran and six world powers are determined to overcome the serious differences in the way of a final agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program, a source close to the Iranian team of negotiators said.


“Today’s negotiations indicated that differences are serious, however, the parties’ determination to settle the differences is also serious,” the source said in Vienna on Monday, after a plenary meeting of foreign ministers of Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).

The foreign ministers met twice at Vienna’s Palais Coburg on Monday, the day before their most recent self-imposed deadline for hammering out a deal.

Iran and the Group 5+1 (also known as the P5+1 or E3+3) have been negotiating over the past 22 months to end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran's civilian nuclear program once and for all.

They are busy negotiating in Vienna to clinch a comprehensive nuclear deal. Last week, the parties gave themselves an extra week beyond an end-June deadline to nail down details of the long-awaited accord.

Earlier on Monday, a source familiar with the negotiations said the final deadline for the comprehensive accord falls on late Wednesday or the early hours of Thursday, July 9.

By Tasnim News Agency