Top EU diplomat hopeful for deal at Iran nuclear talks

Enrique Mora, the European Union co-ordinator of talks to revive Iran’s nuclear accord with world powers, left, shakes hands with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, in Tehran (Iranian Foreign Ministry/AP)

The European Union’s foreign policy chief said he is hopeful that stalled talks with Iran over the country’s nuclear programme can still lead to an agreement.

The talks between Tehran and world powers are deadlocked, partly due to Iran’s demand for the United States to lift a terrorist designation on the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.