Process of drafting N deal moving forward

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran and the P5+1 group of countries are working on the draft of a final deal over Tehran’s nuclear work.

In a Monday tweet, Zarif said that the process of drafting is “moving forward” as the two sides are “determined to end this manufactured crisis & open new horizons.”

The Iranian top diplomat, however, stressed that “many brackets” still remain which need to resolved by hard work.

Experts from Iran and the six global powers are currently in New York to try to reach a draft agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program.

An earlier tweet by senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi described the drafting process as “difficult,” noting that there are many bracketed points of disagreement in the text.

Araqchi has expressed hope that the first draft would come out within the next few days.

On Sunday, Hamid Baeedinejad, another member of Iran’s negotiating team, said that the two sides are taking all technical and legal aspects into regard during the drafting process and thus spend hours on every word, phrase and sentence of the proposed text.