Iran–United States relations

On US Secretary of State John Kerry's Swiss bike rides last week to unwind from intense Iran nuclear talks, one emerging tricky issue may well have been going round his head: UN sanctions.
     

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said March 21 differences remain but all issues can be resolved in talks with the West to secure a long-sought deal on his country's disputed nuclear programme.
  

Iran and six world powers suspended negotiations on a historic nuclear deal and were set to convene again later next week to break a deadlock over sensitive atomic research and lifting of sanctions, Western officials said on March 20.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic received an invitation for the ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran from June 7 to 10.

The invitation by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was delivered to Dacic on Thursday by Iranian Ambassador in Belgrade Majid Fahimpur.

US President Barack Obama told the people and leaders of Iran on March 19 that nuclear talks presented "the best opportunity in decades" for the two countries to transform long-frayed ties, but warned there was still work to do in the tortuous negotiations.
     

The world’s great powers and Iran are unlikely to finalize the framework of an agreement over the Iranian nuclear program within the next few days, since both sides disagree on many things.

A European negotiator stated that Iranians may support that 90% of the agreement is complete, however, that is untrue.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart reported "progress" in talks on Tehran's contested nuclear programme but with still much left to achieve ahead of an March 31 deadline.
      

U.S. ambassador: We were right to impose sanctions on Serbia

BELGRADE -- U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby has said that there was "pressure" on Serbia to join western sanctions against Russia.

But that does not mean that something must be done, he remarked during an interview for the N1 broadcaster.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday played down the chances of reaching a nuclear agreement during talks under way this week in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
     

The US hunkered down Tuesday with Iran for crunch talks while warning that key disagreements remain ahead of a March 31 deadline to agree the outlines of a major nuclear deal.
      
"There is no way around it, we still have a ways to go," a senior US official involved in the talks in the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne said Tuesday.