NEWS GUIDE: The gaps as Iran talks head into overtime
The United States says any deal will stretch the time Iran would require to make a nuclear weapon, to at least year from two months to three months now.
Critics are skeptical and say such an agreement would keep intact Tehran’s nuclear technology.
The sides have made progress on cuts and limits to Iran’s enrichment program. Over the past weeks, Iran has moved from demanding that it be allowed to keep nearly 10,000 centrifuges enriching uranium to agreeing to 6,000.
Tehran may be ready to accept even fewer but is said to be pushing back on how long it must limit the technology it could use to make atomic arms.
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WHERE ELSE IS THERE PROGRESS?
Iran and the six powers at the table have edged closer about what to do with a nearly built Iranian reactor. It was a proliferation concern because it would have produced enough plutonium for several nuclear bombs a year.
The facility would be re-engineered to generate only a fraction of the material.
Officials say the sides also are discussing turning a formerly secret underground uranium enrichment plant into a facility that would make isotopes for medical, industrial and scientific uses.
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