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             Iran, World Powers Discuss Comprehensive Nuclear Deal

   Representatives from Iran and a group of six world powers are meeting
   for a second day in Vienna, as they continue to work on a long-term
   agreement to ensure Iran`s nuclear program is peaceful.
   Wednesday`s meeting follows an opening session that a spokesman for
   European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called
   "substantive" and "useful."
   The two sides are trying to build on a six-month deal they reached in
   November that calls for Iran to cut back its most sensitive nuclear
   activity in exchange for limited sanctions relief.
   Iran`s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday his country
   would not scrap any of its nuclear facilities as part of a
   comprehensive agreement.
   The group that includes the United States, Britain, China, France,
   Russia and Germany wants Iran to provide assurances it will not develop
   nuclear weapons. In return, Iran wants all the sanctions that have hurt
   its economy to be lifted.
   Iran has long insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful.
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