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Facing deadline, US and Iran press nuclear talks

By BRADLEY KLAPPERGEORGE JAHN

Published July 14, 2014 7:00pm ET

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Facing deadline, US and Iran press nuclear talks — Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, foreground, holds a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry background right, on the second straight day of talks, in Vienna, Austria, Monday July 14, 2014. Secretary of State John Kerry continued in-depth discussions Monday with Iran's top diplomat in a bid to advance faltering nuclear negotiations, with a deadline just days away for a comprehensive agreement. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool) | Jim Bourg

VIENNA (AP) — The top U.S. and Iranian diplomats searched Monday for a breakthrough in nuclear talks, their efforts complicated by crises across the Middle East and beyond that have Washington and Tehran aligned in some places but often opposed.

The state of U.S.-Iranian relations was adding a new wrinkle to the long negotiation aimed at curbing the Islamic republic’s uranium and plutonium programs.

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