Iran president says all nuclear issues can be resolved

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said March 21 differences remain but all issues can be resolved in talks with the West to secure a long-sought deal on his country's disputed nuclear programme.
  
"I believe an agreement is possible. There is nothing that cannot be resolved and the other party must make its final decision for this," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying.
  
Rouhani's comments came a day after the latest round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany -- ended without a breakthrough.
  
The long-running talks are aimed at putting an Iranian nuclear bomb out of reach in exchange for easing sanctions on its economy.
  
"In this round of negotiations (in Lausanne, Switzerland) there were differences on some issues," Rouhani said, but noting that "common views emerged that can be the basis of a final agreement."
  
However he added: "Some points of disagreement persist."
  
The negotiations are to resume on Wednesday, leaving the two sides with just one week to meet a March 31 deadline for agreeing the outlines of a nuclear deal they hope will end a 12-year deadlock.
  
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was to leave Switzerland on March 21 for talks in London with his British, French and German counterparts, the State Department said.
  
On March 20 Kerry spoke by telephone with the foreign ministers of Russia and China, the other two powers involved in talks that officially resumed after the 2013 election of Rouhani.
  
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who faced Kerry in talks all week, said Saturday his team had been willing to work through the weekend, but the P5+1...