Senior officials from Western powers and Iran started a one-day round of talks in Muscat on Tuesday, with a deadline for reaching a nuclear deal less than two weeks away and no imminent breakthrough in sight. Tuesday’s discussions follow two days of meetings between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and EU envoy Catherine Ashton aimed at resolving years of dispute over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “There’s more work to do, clearly,” a senior State Department official said. Iran’s top negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, described the negotiations in Oman as “two days of very hard work”, the official IRNA news agency reported. He added that he was “not in a position to claim that progress is achieved”, but sounded more upbeat in a subsequent interview with Iranian state television. “There is a capacity to reach a deal by November […]