article_snippet: Crucial negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme stalled last night with the deadline for an international agreement due to expire at midnight tonight.
article_snippet: Officials say Officials remain ‘hopeful’ of a deal but expect a day of ‘brinkmanship’ with Iran trying to win concessions on crippling UN sanctions in return for agreeing to limits that would prevent Tehran from producing enough fuel for a nuclear weapon within a year.
article_snippet: After 18-months of difficult, protracted negotiations, Britain, the US, China, Russia, France and Germany are aiming to agree a political framework that would set the stage for talks on the technical details of a comprehensive accord, due by 30 June.
article_snippet: Iran appears unwilling to compromise further, Iran supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has left its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei
article_snippet: no negotiating space insisting yesterday :
article_snippet: A Western diplomat warned: ‘There are still some quite important gaps,’ amid warnings that ‘an agreement is far from certain.
article_snippet: Despite deep disagreements on several points, Western officials said the two sides had previously been closing in on a preliminary deal that could be summarized in a brief document which may or may not be released.
article_snippet: Officials said a preliminary deal that could be summarized in a brief document which may or may not be released could run at least until the deadline of midnight on Tuesday or beyond.