(Los Angeles Times) Paul Richter - Diplomats seeking to limit Iran's nuclear program have long said they wouldn't keep bargaining if officials in Tehran proved unwilling to budge. But after a year of negotiations and two missed deadlines, the diplomats have done just that, failing to meet the latest cutoff date, Nov. 24, and instead extended negotiations for seven months. Iran, which considers its program a symbol of national achievement, has rejected demands to dismantle its $100-billion nuclear infrastructure. And by 2021, it wants to expand its enrichment capability twentyfold by adding thousands of centrifuges. When the latest talks ended, division remained on several key issues: how much enrichment capacity Iran would be allowed to keep, how long the agreement should last, how closely Iran's program would be monitored, how much nuclear research it could conduct, and how it would redesign the Arak reactor.
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