article_snippet: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, lit, talks with members of his delegation after a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and other officials at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel on Friday.
article_snippet: Kerry, left, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, 2nd left, and others, including Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi, 2nd right, and  Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, right, particpate in a Friday meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace on Friday in Lausanne, Switzerland .
article_snippet: U.S. officials and their foreign counterparts in the P5 +1 group - the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council along with Germany - were in Switzerland on Friday with Iran's negotiators making a desperate last ditch bid to secure a landmark agreement - 13 years since the country's nuclear program became public.
article_snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters staking out the talks that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif didn't have a strong sense if an acceptable agreement could be made in the next several days. '
article_snippet: The negotiations are difficult and complicated and there . are highs and lows,' Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, according to Reuters. '
article_snippet: Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, left, talks with the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi after Friday's meeting. 
article_snippet: An Iranian official told Reuters that lingering issues with the international coalition, which includes, China, Russia and France in addition to Germany, Britain and the U.S., were over research and development and U.N. sanctions .
article_snippet: An Iranian official told Reuters, however, that lingering issues with the coalition, which includes, China, Russia and France in addition to Germany, Britain and the U.S., were over research and development and U.N. sanctions.
article_snippet: Another Iranian negotiator told AFP on Friday that as far as AFP is concerned, 'It all depends on the willingness of the other side.
article_snippet: Elsewhere, the hawkish French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has warned against a soft deal during negotiations. '