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It was a scene we've seen before: the world's top diplomats huddled for crunch Iran nuclear talks as the world held its breath, but this time there was a sigh of relief. At 2:00 am (0100 GMT) at the posh Intercontinental hotel in Geneva, lavishly dressed party guests at a karaoke bar stepped daintily past bedraggled and sleep-deprived journalists on their way through the lobby, when suddenly word began spreading: There is a deal. It took five days of marathon talks, with very little official information trickling out, leaving reporters to fend for themselves in a sea of contradictory rumours about what progress, if any, was being made towards a first-step agreement to end a decade-long dispute between world powers and Iran over its nuclear programme. That time too expectations soared when US Secretary of State John Kerry and his British, French, German and Russian counterparts unexpectedly weighed in on the intense diplomatic talks over Iran's nuclear ambitions, only to crash when the illustrious parties had to go home empty handed.
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