Tehran, YJC. A source close to Iran's team of negotiators involved in the nuclear talks with six world powers dismissed as untrue earlier media reports that the two sides have agreed to extend a deadline for talks over Iran's nuclear program.
The media reports about the extension of talks between Iran
and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany)
over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program until March 2015 "are not
true," the source said on Wednesday, according to Tasnim news agency.
"Given the existing sensitivity of the negotiations, some
media outlets have become active in making false news based on incorrect
speculations,” the source said on condition of anonymity, and asked the Iranian
media to prevent impacts of such reports on the country's public opinion.
The remarks came as the Japanese daily newspapers Asahi
Shimbun, citing an Iranian official, had claimed that the nuclear talks have
been extended until March 2015.
The development came as diplomats from Iran and the Group
5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are in Vienna to
hammer out a final, long-awaited agreement to resolve the West’s decade-old
standoff over Iran's civilian nuclear work.