Iran deal 'steps' away – Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that global powers and Iran were "only steps" from a negotiated deal aimed at cutting back Tehran's nuclear program, following marathon talks, AFP reported.
"The matters that are being decided now are close to being agreed, literally there are only steps, and in some cases half-steps, some things have already been settled," Lavrov said at a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (STO), a Moscow-backed security organization, in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.
Russia's top diplomat did not disclose which points of the talks - taking place in the Swiss city of Lausanne and involving United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany as well as Iran - were close to agreement.