(Wall Street Journal) Jay Solomon - Talks on a permanent Iran nuclear accord opened Tuesday with the U.S. pressing Tehran to agree the deal should encompass caps on its expanding ballistic missile capabilities. "Every issue is on the table as part of the comprehensive negotiations, including Iran's ballistic missile program," said a senior U.S. official at the talks. But Iran says the missiles are beyond the limits of nuclear talks. "The Islamic Republic of Iran's defensive issues are neither negotiable nor subject to compromise," Iran's deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told Iranian state television on Sunday. "We won't discuss any issue other than the nuclear dossier in the negotiations."
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