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As Nuclear Talks Drag On, U.S. and Iran Find It Harder to Hear Each Other

(New York Times) David E. Sanger - At the nuclear negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Americans talk, in a wonderfully American way, about numbers and limits, while Iranian officials talk almost entirely about their rights and preserving respect for Iran's sense of sovereignty. Iranian negotiators are reluctant to sign any paper that lays out too many specifics about what they would give up or put in storage, or how much nuclear fuel they would either hand over to the Russians or dilute. "They are all about symbolism, about avoiding the optics of backing down," one senior American official at the center of the negotiations said.
2015-04-01 00:00:00
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