FINANCIAL TIMES: Detailed negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme will start in Geneva next month, it was announced on Thursday, following a meeting in New York that included one of the few encounters between senior US and Iranian officials since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
US secretary of state John Kerry sat next to his new Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN which also brought together the other powers involved in talks over Iran’s nuclear activities.
The meeting completed an intense week of diplomacy at the UN by Iran which has insisted it wants to “jump-start” negotiations and said it hopes to secure a deal within six months… (more)
