US can 'see path' to Iran nuclear deal by Tuesday

[WorldNews]

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US officials said that a nuclear deal with Iran was in sight by a March 31 deadline, as top US diplomat John Kerry arrived in Switzerland for down-to-the-wire talks. The landmark agreement -- which would cap more than a decade of painstaking negotiations -- is designed to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb in return for the lifting or easing of crippling economic sanctions. We see a path to do that," a senior State Department official told reporters, cautioning that it was still possible the political framework to rein in Iran's nuclear program could elude them at the last. Kerry is set to meet in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, for what he hopes will be the successful culmination of months of closed-door negotiations.

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